For reasons of mistaken identity expressed in mark my friends with a ★ or something in chat (litphoria.com), but also ease of telling messages from users apart (I get confused between Griz and Garm, and Alice.1618 and Alice.1673), could we have a user's avatar always show up at or near the beginning of their message line? It can just be a tiny 16x16 pixel square for all I care - the important thing is to have the color and general content distinguishable to help me tell who's who.
And for the mistaken identity case, if I see a name I recognise with an avatar I do not, it might help clue me in that hey, this might not be the same person I usually see with this name, maybe this is another Alice to usual, or another person who likes the name Griz. The Samus in this room is not the same Samus I'm talking to in the other room. Etc.
Or I'll just see my friend's avatar changed and compliment them on it like a new haircut. :)
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endorsement points: 25
created: 24 February 16 at 05:10 AM (build: 10/1/2015 4:20 PM beta)
closed: 01 August 16 at 02:55 AM (build: 8/1/2016 2:13 AM beta)
Avatars are already going to be hit for the userlist, so it wouldn't be any more wasteful to display them in more places. It could potentially maybe? cause some kind of slowdown on slower devices but I'm not sure that's going to be noticeable or significant.
With the new system, we can have much more flexibility about these kinds of things. This needn't display for everyone always, but could easily be a toggle somewhere for some (all?) roleplay layouts.
Borrowing from the new chat system's terminology, I could imagine the "block"/roleplay layout using the wide & stout avatars in the bar across the top, and chat using tiny squares before the name.
This is on the testing server in a first-phase toggleable feature. Right now, it is limited to one size, and displays a little rectangular "eyecon" to the left of posts names. It actually looks like Tyne's mockup, only the avatar is to the far left.
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