If someone who has chosen to not allow you to see their posts creates one or more in a thread that you're reading, it really fucks up the flow of things. Not everyone quotes text when they create replies (or maybe those are invisible now too? IDK). So you get reply posts and you don't have a clue what they're talking about. It's probably also annoying to people posting "HELP!" threads when you, now being clueless, end up posting the same advice that someone else just posted.
Also, while I'm thinking about things that fuck up the flow of a thread, how do we turn off loading of people's avatar images? I knew where the option was in the old forum software's USER CP, but never had to use it because animated .GIF avatar images had been turned off. Now they're enabled, and I've learned the hard way that peoples "flashing color" avatar images continually distract the eyes away from the text, and make chronic headaches worse. Which section of our config settings is the option to disable display of these things located? (Thanks 1,000,000+ times!)
Also, while I'm thinking about things that fuck up the flow of a thread, how do we turn off loading of people's avatar images? I knew where the option was in the old forum software's USER CP, but never had to use it because animated .GIF avatar images had been turned off. Now they're enabled, and I've learned the hard way that peoples "flashing color" avatar images continually distract the eyes away from the text, and make chronic headaches worse. Which section of our config settings is the option to disable display of these things located? (Thanks 1,000,000+ times!)