National Flag below username/avatar?

[Jimlaad43]

I think just having an option to select your national flag to be displayed below your username would be cool. Anyone else like the idea?

 

[Nelson Ullinskey]

You have my support, Jimlaad, but I also understand if it is too much of a hassle for the staff to implement.

 

[mystaaRS]

I like that idea too, and also the possibility of two flags for dual-nationality

 

[Ho3n3r]

+1! Great idea.

 

[Milos]

Would be awesome

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

This would require a forum modification that is currently not supported, and as it ads very little to none to the functionality its not very likely that its going to happen.

Would have a big impact on the loading speed of pages as well as every image has to be requested per page load.

 

[Deleted member 161052]

This will be awesome

 

[Rupe Wilson]

Simple solution is to drop a little flag in your avatar.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Simple solution is to drop a little flag in your avatar.

Simple yet very much winning solution

 

[Ron Squire]

YES PLEASE

 

[Dave Stephenson]

Simple solution is to drop a little flag in your avatar.

Far simpler than our solution would need to be.

 

[Milos]

Far simpler than our solution would need to be.

You can't just add a flag over it, and delete the "invisible" part of the avatar?

 

[Ron Squire]

just add it next to the name

 

[Rupe Wilson]

Read what was posted please,

This would require a forum modification that is currently not supported, and as it ads very little to none to the functionality its not very likely that its going to happen.

Would have a big impact on the loading speed of pages as well as every image has to be requested per page load.

The only solution is to do it yourself and add a little flag to your own avatar image,

 

[Jimlaad43]

How about this?

 

[Dave Stephenson]

I'm not ruling it out outright, but it's not just a case of slapping an image in place. Currently people only choose a timezone not a country, so that information needs a place to be collected and then stored. The template system and the postbit builder needs modding and appropriate caching put in place. Finally, I have to choose which countries to put in a list for your selection, followed by complaints that 'small principality I never heard of existed' is missing and the usual 3 week argument I have with Bram about why I'm English not United Kingdomish

Tbh at the moment I'm working on something that potentially involves similar functionality so there's a chance it might make a showing anyway but all in all my todo list is absolutely huge atm and this would not sit in a priority slot.

So in principal yes, maybe at some point down the road it will fill a slow Saturday morning but at the moment I can't promise anything or commit the time to it.

 

[Jimlaad43]

It's just an idea that I'm fine tuning. Put it this way, I have absolutely no idea how to code something like that, so I appreciate that it may be hard.

 

[Dave Stephenson]

Not hard per se. there's just some things that need to be approached in a proper way in order to prevent a return to the heavily modded, slow, and somewhat buggy, days of the old vBulletin installation.

As for the idea though, in principal yes I do like it. I just can't commit to it atm.