It's 2024.....and steam forum profile avatars are still tiny

[CEO Hunter]

It's 2024.....and steam forum profile avatars are still tiny.

What a joke.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

Unsurprising the user who uses their pfp to complain about the platform would want it larger in the forums.

[Tito Shivan]

Автор сообщения: Caravanseray

It's not 1994

Thankfully you're right.

[JVC]

Avatars are completely superfluous anyway.

And stating what year we're in has never been an argument in the first place

[NakiBest]

If you use web browser zoom, you can mimic the behaviour/view of those long gone, older CRT displays we used to use. :)

Of course, text becomes much bigger too..

It would be nice to be able to customize text size in the forums (such as Normal, Bigger, Biggest, Smaller, Smallest) but I guess this is very low priority for Valve, so unlikely to happen soon.

[Lystent]

Steam avatars are pretty basic in general; that don't even support transparent backgrounds the last I knew.
As for displaying the pics bigger on the forums, UI clutter is an issue to keep in check. There is atleast the hover-over option to get a better idea as of what another user's avatar pic is, but that is still scaled down a notch. I'd advocate for a full-sized preview, like on the profile page, but I've recently seen what happens when Steam's client loads up too many assets at once (it laaags).

Автор сообщения: NakiBest

If you use web browser zoom, you can mimic the behaviour/view of those long gone, older CRT displays we used to use. :)

Of course, text becomes much bigger too..

It would be nice to be able to customize text size in the forums (such as Normal, Bigger, Biggest, Smaller, Smallest) but I guess this is very low priority for Valve, so unlikely to happen soon.

An issue stems from computers supporting higher resolutions whilst monitors in general not getting much bigger. I can personally attest to how not everyone is able to fully utilize the far-improved DPI, let alone make it out from a jumbled mess. I, myself, just use some flatscreen television to make things easier on my shoddy eyesight.

[NakiBest]

@Lystent, that is totally incorrect.

You have between 24", 27', 28" to choose now, as well as 32", 38", 39", and even 105" monitors. :)
You can choose between standard screen, taller screen (different aspect ratio from the standard 16:9), wide-screen, ultra-widescreen too.

Of course, the 105" monitor offered by iiyama (not a TV!) is really expensive and won't fit on some (many?) desks/work tables around. :)

[Pipe]

pretty sure the forums are on valve's 0-priority list. it's 2024 and we still can't mention individuals (you know, like, @cat_fan) or get a notification when someone quotes you

[Lystent]

Автор сообщения: NakiBest

@Lystent, that is totally incorrect.

You have between 24", 27', 28" to choose now, as well as 32", 38", 39", and even 105" monitors. :)
You can choose between standard screen, taller screen (different aspect ratio from the standard 16:9), wide-screen, ultra-widescreen too.

Of course, the 105" monitor offered by iiyama (not a TV!) is really expensive and won't fit on some (many?) desks/work tables around. :)

Alright, I stand corrected on that detail, after doing some price checks/measurements; my old monitor (now secondary) is 23" @ 1920x1080, whilst my TV is 32" @ 1360x768. Granted, looks like the TV market has been replaced with high-DPI smart TVs, which appears to have inflated the general TV prices. (Basically, paying for DPI you are probably not going to be using, especially if it comes to reducing system resolution to force apps to enlarge their UI.)

Edit: and don't get me started on the 'telling a computer to display another computer' nonsense that is with smart TVs.

[T9]

Avatars are good for eye orientation and to quickly scan the thread. Unless you are a tiktok fan then, well u have lost anyway.
Bigger? No really needed

[Crashed]

Автор сообщения: Caravanseray

Автор сообщения: Zarineth

You mean that small avatar next to your thread? Why would it need to be bigger? It's just to show who is an author of a post. It's not really relevant most of the time.

Why? Because i dunno, it's 2024 and we arent operating on 56k modems.

having tiny avatars is subpar . Kinda obvious

I guess you believe ALL graphics shoudl be some weird 90x90 or such format.

Bro , forums in 1998 had better avatars, jump in the delorean and ask them why they are ahead of steam in 2024

Just because we aren't using modems doesn't mean people aren't on metered plans.

[Crashed]

Автор сообщения: Leonardo Da Pinchi

Unsurprising the user who uses their pfp to complain about the platform would want it larger in the forums.

I'd think another user would want larger ones because his is a rant claiming people harass the moderators to get him banned, when in fact it was his own conduct.

[Tito Shivan]

Автор сообщения: Crashed

Just because we aren't using modems doesn't mean people aren't on metered plans.

In any case It'd be cool not having to download 40 8mb animated gif files just to read a thread.

I still think SPUF did it best. Avatars only for mods, Valve staff and developers

[76561199559798421]

would be pointless for mods or valve staff to only have avatars since they don't use the forums, trying to gloat about being important on a non important function like the forums is a weird flex.

would be better if could use animated gifs to spice up the forums, its getting boring seeing the same old faces time and time again.

[Lystent]

Автор сообщения: Tito Shivan

Автор сообщения: Crashed

Just because we aren't using modems doesn't mean people aren't on metered plans.

In any case It'd be cool not having to download 40 8mb animated gif files just to read a thread.

I still think SPUF did it best. Avatars only for mods, Valve staff and developers

I tried to browse the 'from your games' section of the points shop, and those little guys* really add up, even without metered internet. Granted, Steam was still loading up every other game in its database before showing me all the applicable games I got, but I didn't get to see all of them anyways because the client could only take a few gigs of content before slowing down significantly, and it was likely just slapping the recently loaded stuff on top of all the previously loaded stuff.

*So 8MB not terribly small after all. My latest avatar pic was only ~0.1MB (rounded up), before nuking it with the file type conversion and the shrinkage.

[Machine Gunn Eddie]

whats next big picture memes?