Comments on: pictures in profiles

pictures in profiles

yhbc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:08:46 -0800

Uploading a picture to your profile? UPLOADING A PICTURE TO YOUR PROFILE!

Did I miss this, or is this a Brand New Thing? Thanks!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:12:16 -0800

Brand new thing. We're also pushing this out today.

Try out the image upload/crop stuff. It's pretty cool

(and quonsar, for the love of god, please keep it clean)

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:15:56 -0800

I totally just MetaTalked this myself.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:17:42 -0800

My remark was that I'm NOT gonna lead the motley conga line into Mordor and whatnot. Thanks, yhbc.

Wow, Matt. Give yourself a raise!

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:18:15 -0800

I totally just MetaTalked this myself.

As did I.

I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, it could be cool. On the other hand, it could make things a little... myspace-y.

Someone please convince me that this is awesome. kthxbai.

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:18:55 -0800

This is going to ruin everything.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:18:58 -0800

Done.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:20:11 -0800

I like how the place holder figure is a total hurfdurfer.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:20:17 -0800

Actually I like the default silhouette. It looks a bit like Cartman. I'm gonna keep it.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:21:13 -0800

Nice choice, Chef. For now, mine is the fantasy football team logo (the Gotham City Dark Knights). Only picture I had available at the office.

By: Aloysius Bear

Aloysius Bear — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:21:44 -0800

Awesome.

But Matt and pb: I assume profile pictures are visible only to logged-in members. If this is so, you need to either obscure the URL of the image file in some way, as at the moment they are entirely guessable, or perform some kind of authentication prior to serving the file.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:22:15 -0800

*takes picture of scrotum*

This is just like XBox Live!

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:23:30 -0800

The placeholder thing is stupid. Could you just not display anything if there's no picture uploaded? Don't make me upload a transparent image or something.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:23:39 -0800

YOU WILL NEVER BEAT ME MATT
NEVER
WHY DO YOU CONTINUE TO TRY???

By: fijiwriter

fijiwriter — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:23:47 -0800

Extra points if you wear your MeFi funky blue Tshirt in your profile pic!

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:25:49 -0800

Now to upload extra pictures to my flickr account so I don't have the same picture 5 times on my profile page.

Although, the world could use a lil more me...

By: Divine_Wino

Divine_Wino — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:26:23 -0800

My Nuts Are My Life.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:27:58 -0800

I was just thinking that now quonsar gets to put his pissing elephant back on his profile.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:30:14 -0800

Okay fine. I held out valiantly for 30 minutes.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:30:35 -0800

Oh heck yes.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:30:55 -0800

Note:
The Twitter profile already displays a picture of the user. You want to see more pictures of me, ala the new profile page photo? Note a big thing, just seems kinda odd to me.

(and quonsar, for the love of god, please keep it clean)

I'm sure he'll wash it before he takes a picture of it.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:31:17 -0800

I think the move of the "Add as a Contact" link to next to the MeMail link looks nice.

By: kkokkodalk

kkokkodalk — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:32:23 -0800

No.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:32:45 -0800

It's not possible to resize a cropped image area down to 140x140px when the box is bigger than that?

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:32:51 -0800

I was about to mention the profile pic. Very cool.

One issue, though (sorry)...Clicking on anything in my profile page (as well as everything in the Edit Profile section) launches a new window. Adding my profile photo resulted in something like 4 new windows open.

Safari, if that makes a difference.

Great additions to the place, though. This joint keeps getting better and better.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:35:14 -0800

Wow. I especially appreciate the automatic de-aging filter.

By: Godbert

Godbert — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:36:05 -0800

Whatever manipulations are done as part of the crop process (which is apparently even done when the image is 140x140), it removes transparency and replaces it with white.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:36:48 -0800

I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, it could be cool. On the other hand, it could make things a little... myspace-y.

I wasn't aware that MySpace was the first website to allow a picture in your profile. I guess you learn something everyday!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:37:30 -0800

brownpau, the box defaults to a 140x140px max size

By: cashman

cashman — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:38:35 -0800

Mmmm, wonderbread.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:38:49 -0800

I assume profile pictures are visible only to logged-in members.

That's a weird assumption. I've uploaded a profile photo to three dozen services at least and have yet to find one that allows for private photos. If you don't want your image public, don't upload.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:39:46 -0800

So should we remove the dumb default icon? It encourages you to replace it with something better, but for people that will never upload an image, I could see it being kind of annoying.

By: Stynxno

Stynxno — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:40:05 -0800

I'm not sure how I feel about it. On the one hand, it could be cool. On the other hand, it could make things a little... myspace-y.

BIG BOOBED WHORE would like to be your contact!

new mefi.mail from OMGYOUNEEDMOREVIAGRA!!

new blog post from LOSERWHOYOUTRYTOPRETENDYOUDONTKNOWBUTYOUCANTBECAUSEYOURMOMSAREFRIENDS

new bulletin from RONPAULSUPPORTER

new bulletin from PLEASEPOSTCOMMENTSONMYPICTURESBECAUSEICANNOTDATEAND99%OFALLANNONASKMESAREME

new comment on your page: LOL DONGS
-------------------------------------------------------------------
man. i can't wait.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:40:05 -0800

I wasn't aware that MySpace was the first website to allow a picture in your profile.

You're more entertaining when you just talk about how you hate everybody.

Fyi.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:40:15 -0800

Yeah, it's kind of annoying.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:40:35 -0800

I'm scared.

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:41:14 -0800

So should we remove the dumb default icon?
Yes.
It encourages you to replace it with something better
...or to whine about it...
for people that will never upload an image, I could see it being kind of annoying.
It's annoying now even if I might upload an image at some point in the future.

By: cashman

cashman — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:41:26 -0800

So should we remove the dumb default icon? It encourages you to replace it with something better, but for people that will never upload an image, I could see it being kind of annoying.

OH NOES, MATHOWEY BE STEALIN MY WONDERBREAD :(

By: maudlin

maudlin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:41:30 -0800

(The default icon is annoying, that is. I'm sure there is a complete universe of annoying things out there, but being specific is probably a good thing.)

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:41:50 -0800

Ok, I'm in!

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:42:44 -0800

Is the concern with the default icon that it'll annoy the user who hasn't uploaded a pic, or that it'll look dumb when anyone else looks at said user's profile?

Because if it's mostly the latter case, we could hide the default from everybody but the user themself.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:42:51 -0800

excellent!

now we can all go trawling the web for shots of models, who don't resemble us in the slightest!

By: interrobang

interrobang — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:42:55 -0800

Hooray!

By: NoMich

NoMich — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:43:11 -0800

Cool.

By: Partial Law

Partial Law — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:43:55 -0800

The nice thing about the default icon is that it already looks somewhat like eyeballkid's scrotum.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:44:01 -0800

*clicks profile*

Oh! Oh DEAR GOD. That...THAT'S how they look like? And to think I had a MeFi crush on them all these years. Christ on a crutch. I'm disgusted. I think I threw up a little in my mouth. Oh god.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:44:32 -0800

don't use javascript to validate user input without checking on the server side as well. :(

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:45:25 -0800

at last we will reveal ourselves to the mefi

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:45:40 -0800

I tried uploading a picture, realised it was too big to fit in the cropping box, so I went back and selected a different image and now when I click the Upload Picture button it spends a couple of minutes thinking and then spits out:

500



ROOT CAUSE: 

coldfusion.runtime.RequestTimedOutException: The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfoutput

	at coldfusion.tagext.io.OutputTag.doStartTag(OutputTag.java:149)

	at cfheader2ecfm843133822.runPage(C:\metafilter sites\www.metafilter.com\header.cfm:6)

	at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:192)

...followed by another 60-odd lines of similar stuff.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:45:52 -0800

So should we remove the dumb default icon?

please replace it with the fallout guy.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:46:43 -0800

Nah, I like this one better.

By: typewriter

typewriter — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:46:53 -0800

cortex: I swear to God, I can never see that donut picture often enough.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:47:22 -0800

also that is one hell of a donut cortex

By: occhiblu

occhiblu — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:48:06 -0800

Is the concern with the default icon that it'll annoy the user who hasn't uploaded a pic, or that it'll look dumb when anyone else looks at said user's profile?

I find the default icon annoying on my own page, so I'd like it removed from there, too, please.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:49:05 -0800

that is one hell of a donut cortex

That's what all the laddies say.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:49:13 -0800

Oo, could we ditch the white stroke around the picture, please,please, please?

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:49:23 -0800

oh, oh. the default picture should be matt with his glasses askance and making The Face.

but honestly do not google for "mathowie glasses askance" unless you want to see hairy bobbin man-ass.

By: Parasite Unseen

Parasite Unseen — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:49:40 -0800

Does this mean that I'm allowed to post AskMe questions about whether I'm Hot or Not?

By: delmoi

delmoi — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:49:41 -0800

That's a weird assumption. I've uploaded a profile photo to three dozen services at least and have yet to find one that allows for private photos. If you don't want your image public, don't upload.

Heh, Flickr certainly allows "private" photos.

Heh. Heh.

Speaking of which, what are you going to do about NSFW pictures? I mean I guess most people wouldn't want to risk their $5 membership, so it probably won't be too big of a deal. But remember the Metafilter Myspace profile?

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:49:57 -0800

"kind of annoying" +1

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:50:01 -0800

How about a MetaFilter facebook app?

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:51:25 -0800

Oh, it appears to be working again now.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:51:45 -0800

boo_radley has a cool looking profile now.

By: ninjew

ninjew — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:52:32 -0800

What makes you think I want to know what you people look like?

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:52:50 -0800

...and then he scrolled down, and magical things happened. Odd squiggles bounced light off rods and cones, information sped through his optic nerve, and somewhere in that gray mass symbols connected with memory and meaning, and finally understanding was achieved. I can read!

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:56:01 -0800

boo_radley has a cool looking profile now.

Actually, it's sort of what I meant by "myspace-y".

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:56:37 -0800

how is that done?

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:57:32 -0800

done : )

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:58:07 -0800

eh, I chose a picture that was well over the listed 140x140 dimensions to see how well the system would handle exceptions. The answer is "not very".

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:58:54 -0800

I thought this is what you meant by "myspace-y".

By: quin

quin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:59:59 -0800

Ha! Good luck stalking me based on that photo.

(seriously, if any of you wants to stalk me, just lemme know. I'm bored.)

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:00:08 -0800

but honestly do not google for "mathowie glasses askance" unless you want to see hairy bobbin man-ass.

Wow, I thought you were kidding. But no.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:00:17 -0800

radley, thats huge and looks nothing like you.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:01:11 -0800

This is a bad idea.

Also the sidebar on the front page is spammed by cortex.

Also, doesn't mefi work fine already? Other than the users?

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:01:42 -0800

This is... weird.

It's like the end of "Sybil" when all of Sally Field's multiple personalities step out from behind trees and meet her for the first time.

*shatters window, sobs*

By: melissa may

melissa may — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:02:54 -0800

I think it's great! Or it makes me want to eat your faces. I just can't decide.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:03:23 -0800

blacklite: thanks to mefi, I hardly work at all! Ha!

By: quin

quin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:03:47 -0800

Oh, and Matt, why do you have a picture of that Sylar guy in your profile? You know he's gonna be Spock right?

By: EndsOfInvention

EndsOfInvention — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:04:11 -0800

It's kind of annoying having to find a photo where the bit I want showing is within the 140px square. Can't you just make some sort of auto-resized version like Facebook does?

By: maryh

maryh — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:05:10 -0800

I love this! And that's just plain adorable, interrobang.

By: maryh

maryh — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:08:30 -0800

Whoa! And look at that crazy-ass sidebar! What is this, freaking Christmas??

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:08:56 -0800

Heh, Flickr certainly allows "private" photos.

Not as your profile image. It's public.

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:08:59 -0800

This will shatter my carefully built perceptions of people based on reading their comments. Its kind of like reading a book and then going to see the movie and having your interpretation of what each character looks like ruined for the rest of the series. Stupid Daniel Radcliff.

Mmmm. However, I feel that it isn't the end of the world, and I have already put up a picture which is nice since I don't use teh flikrs. Also, I think the default is not good looking, and I don't dislike seeing it in profiles where people haven't uploaded pictures. Don't got a reason more specific than "it looks kinda ugly."

Ahhh, sweeeet profile pic, interrobang. I've gotta draw me a cartoon self when I get home.

By: Skot

Skot — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:09:10 -0800

canz plz

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:10:50 -0800

wow, cortex really did spam the sidebar.

By: jmd82

jmd82 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:12:06 -0800

Damn, I look fat.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:12:35 -0800

Hey! Somebody's already stolen my photo & used it on their Facebook profile!

Can't we mark these as copyright, or something?

By: Kwine

Kwine — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:12:48 -0800

This is exactly the sort of feature that might drive me away (not that I've been active for too long, though I've lurked since 9/11, and not that too many people would care). I want this place to be, as much as possible, text only. I've swallowed it until now, but I did not like the flickr (etc) profile links, I do not like the mail feature (almost everyone lets the quality of their writing slide in private messages), and I especially, especially do not like profile pictures. I want this place to discriminate. I want it to scare away people who can't read and write. Adding these social networking features lowers the bar by broadening the appeal--there's now something here for you, even if you're functionally illiterate. "Most of the rest of the internet already is for you, thanks", it used to be. "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out", it used to be.

I think that the day is coming when users routinely end sentences with 'lol' unironically, and no one bothers to correct grammar or spelling mistakes in their comments with a subsequent comment, because there will be so many of them. I think the day is coming when the shit drowns out the content. I'll be gone by then for sure; and I'll be really sad.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:12:50 -0800

Also the sidebar on the front page is spammed by cortex.

You know, I've thought off and on that I don't use the contacts feature enough. And a couple weeks back, I started to do some adding, but then got distracted.

So this hullabuloo today made me realize I should really get on it, and contact a bunch of people who I've met or whose stuff I like or whatever.

And it was only about twenty goddam contacts in that I realized there was that fishbowl on the sidebar showing my every move. Heh.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:13:03 -0800

In the side bar it says: "MeTaTalk" shouldn't that first 'T' be a small t or, if not, shouldn't there be no 'talk'?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:19:50 -0800

Ok, we'll drop the default image. There won't be anything there unless you add a profile image. I thought it was no big deal but can see how it would be annoying.

By: jmd82

jmd82 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:22:14 -0800

This is exactly the sort of feature that might drive me away (not that I've been active for too long, though I've lurked since 9/11, and not that too many people would care). I want this place to be, as much as possible, text only.

Your complaints are only relative to user profiles. The main pages have been left relatively fugly-free.

and no one bothers to correct grammar or spelling mistakes in their comments with a subsequent comment, because there will be so many of them.

Eh, fret not friend. People like to bitch & moan and call out people for that stuff. Between out grammar nazis and the overlords, I wouldn't worry too much.

And thanks for proving my point, liqourice!

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:24:12 -0800

I think you mean our not out.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:24:31 -0800

Damn, Ubu is HOT!

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:25:34 -0800

What Kwine said.

This is also what I meant by "myspace-y."

By: rtha

rtha — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:28:38 -0800

Cool. Like. Thanks.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:28:50 -0800

thanks for drawing attention to me, vronsky. now i've gotta go change my pic to something more anonymous.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:28:57 -0800

Ok, so who's got the Greasemonkey script that displays the user profile pictures next to their comments?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:29:28 -0800

MetaFilter: Lowering the bar broadens the appeal.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:29:48 -0800

Do you know who else is hot? Me. I'm like the adonis of the modern world. Mmmm, yeah.

By: signal

signal — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:32:03 -0800

Welcome to the social, motherfucker.

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:34:01 -0800

I wish I could put up the largest version of my photo, where my ginger nose hair is clearly visible. Ah well.

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:34:21 -0800

Drat. I'm too late.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:34:22 -0800

I think this will lead to much humor. It's kinda like Jessamyn was saying way back in one of the podcasts, about working in constraints forces people to be creative, I would not be surprised if the vast majority of Mefites won't use this to display a picture of themselves, so much as an opportunity to post something weird and amusing.

I like the idea of seeing what people look like, I'm equally amused by crude sketches of cats coughing up hairballs.

It's a tiny, free form box where you can let your strangeness out.

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:36:05 -0800

Behold my hawtness.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:36:19 -0800

hydrophonic wins.

By: Toekneesan

Toekneesan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:37:19 -0800

Getting 500 page on upload. Cold Fusion times out. Why does it hate me?

By: Mister Cheese

Mister Cheese — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:37:49 -0800

I think Kwine has some good points, but Metafilter just isn't a full on social networking thing. Logging into metafilter.com takes you to the front page, not your own profile. You've got to hunt down profiles to find user information. There isn't a public wall like thing where you you can read messages to you from other users. I feel that this is a lot different from internal e-mail.

The level of discourse will only degrade if the atmosphere of grammar monitoring and content snarking lets up. So don't leave, Kwine, or you'll contribute to the bar lowering.

Also, I left out the apostrophe in "it's" in my last comment in this thread and I wanted everyone to know that I'm not a complete idiot and caught it. Just now. Also, "teh flikrs" was intentional. Perhaps I hearken the bar lowering.

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:38:53 -0800

I like how there's a good split in here between real pictures and funny pictures. Maybe one day I will go for the funny pictures, Wbut today I have real picture with vignette crop. It's a variation on the fat girl angle shot.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:45:40 -0800

done (circa '73) ; >

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:46:01 -0800

brain_drain: i never knew you were so well plumbed!

By: Toekneesan

Toekneesan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:47:36 -0800

Still getting a 500 page when trying to upload. It's because I'm fat, isn't it?

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:47:42 -0800

Being mentioned as added by someone in the sidebar is an awful lot like being "Cool New People." My new contacts are multiplying.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:47:58 -0800

and since when was the adonis of the modern world a girl? of apparently indian origin?

By: occhiblu

occhiblu — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:48:27 -0800

Thanks for removing the default icon!

By: Kwine

Kwine — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:49:59 -0800

I'm not going anywhere yet, Mister Cheese. Except right now, when I'm going to go have beer and pizza and watch basketball. Have a nice Friday, everyone! Or have a nice Saturday, people across oceans! Which isn't to suggest that people not across oceans shouldn't have a nice Saturday or anything. In any case, to the evening!

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:51:27 -0800

and since when was the adonis of the modern world a girl? of apparently indian origin?

Well, I originally had up a photo of the Real Adonis(tm) but in fear that I would be inundated with love letters, put a picture up of myself to put a stop to that.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:57:37 -0800

yes, i can sympathise, liquorice. believe me, i know exactly how it feels.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:59:16 -0800

That pic doesn't do you justice Princess Jasmine. You should change it to the "ethnic much" pic on your flikr.

*not stalking you*

(but will if you ask nicely;)

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:07:48 -0800

I'm trying to upload but get a page of this -

500

ROOT CAUSE:
coldfusion.runtime.RequestTimedOutException: The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfoutput
at coldfusion.tagext.io.OutputTag.doStartTag(OutputTag.java:149)

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:08:05 -0800

I'm equally amused by crude sketches of cats coughing up hairballs.

Crude sketches? CRUDE? I'll have you know people have paid dozens of dollars for t-shirts bearing that very same masterwork of design you so casually dismiss as a "crude sketch."

You, sir, are a cretin and a philistine, and a discredit to the fine people of Wisconsin.

By: dios

dios — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:10:18 -0800

I'm just wondering who the first person to post boobs in their picture is.

I'm betting it is m_c_d.

And that is why I love that guy.

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:14:38 -0800

I think posting anything for the sole purpose of grossing people out (see: goatse) should be an action worthy of the banhammer.

By: dios

dios — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:17:33 -0800

I don't think boobs counts as "grossing people out." In fact, a picture of some nice cans would probably be the opposite.

But if we are betting on who puts goatse in the picture first, I'm going with that wildman derek.

By: zennie

zennie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:21:04 -0800

I want this place to be, as much as possible, text only. I've swallowed it until now, but I did not like the flickr (etc) profile links, I do not like the mail feature (almost everyone lets the quality of their writing slide in private messages), and I especially, especially do not like profile pictures. I want this place to discriminate. I want it to scare away people who can't read and write. Adding these social networking features lowers the bar by broadening the appeal--there's now something here for you, even if you're functionally illiterate. "Most of the rest of the internet already is for you, thanks", it used to be. "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out", it used to be.

One the one hand, I'm a huge fan of the "wall of text" minimalism, and I think it does bolster the quality you find at MeFi. On the other hand, I have never participated in a forum very long without eventually "networking," as they call it now, forming friendships. You don't see much on the surface, but I would bet a hefty sum that many members are IMming each other, calling each other, etc., while they surf. It happens. So the cycle goes: get interested, join site, form bonds, move to email, move to IM, phone, meetup. You might notice that in this scheme people are moving away from the site, toward general socialization. It happens; most people on the Internets are human.

I think the members-only bells and whistles are a great compromise. But I admit that the "contact activity" above the sidebar creeps me out a little bit. Not that I don't love my contacts. I'd be happy if I could disable that.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:22:13 -0800

(see: goatse)

huh? what's -

OMFG! Gross! Thanks a bunch, TPS. I feel sick.

Flagged.

By: Ugh

Ugh — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:31:26 -0800

Well... I would post one if I had a funny reddit image, ironic play-on-my-name pic, or a photo of me taking a nap with a giant tortilla, but alas, my pictures aren't cool enough for Metafilter.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:35:15 -0800

Just put up a funny picture of a cat. Everyone loves those.

By: croutonsupafreak

croutonsupafreak — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:38:17 -0800

* runs to glamorshots *

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:44:19 -0800

Is the close your account thing new too?

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:44:40 -0800

"I'm just wondering who the first person to post boobs in their picture is.

I'm betting it is m_c_d."

dios, I tried to upload an animated .gif of a chick flashing her (enormous) boobs, but apparently everything's converted to .JPG on upload? And frankly, ginormous boobs aren't nearly as much fun in a static image as they are in animated bouncing glory.

Sorry.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:47:10 -0800

Is the close your account thing new too?

Pretty new, yeah. Last couple weeks or so. We get requests from people every once in a while to just close their account down; now it's there as as self-service thing.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:47:50 -0800

crash, you could just spend the whole day uploading individual frames, and folks could refresh your profile page once a minute.

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:49:42 -0800

Is there a "are you sure" step and is it reversible?

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:52:19 -0800

It would be nice to have a auto-resizing feature, such that we could make the square be as big as we like, and then whatever is in it gets shrinked down to 140x140.

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:52:39 -0800

Oh, and thanks, Matt.

By: pb

pb — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:53:03 -0800

Mitheral, if you have a profile picture you'll see the option to remove the photo when you click "Change Picture" in your profile.

By: quin

quin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:55:25 -0800

now it's there as as self-service thing

Woah, that's way too much like a "Do not touch; Apocalypse button" for my tastes.

I wanna click the link...

*resists*

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:56:13 -0800

Nice! I went with the boring for testing, but I like the idea of being able to post MeFi art projects in there. That will be cool to watch...

By: zennie

zennie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:56:23 -0800

pb, I think Mitheral may have been referring to the "close your account" link.

(For that, I hope there is more than one "are you sure" step. Yeah, I'm that clumsy.)

By: quin

quin — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:56:59 -0800

pb is a giant white block, just like I always guessed!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:58:33 -0800

There is an "Are you sure" step on the close account thing.

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:04:04 -0800

"crash, you could just spend the whole day uploading individual frames, and folks could refresh your profile page once a minute."

Are you saying they don't do that already?

By: Dillonlikescookies

Dillonlikescookies — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:15:00 -0800

i can see it now.. "hottest snarker, december 07"

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:20:21 -0800

This is the best ever!

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:21:21 -0800

I can't get it to work:( You'll just have to imagine a darkly handsome, aristocratic man, with an eye-patch and a deep scar down one side of his face who looks like he has a mysterious past.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:21:42 -0800

Just put up a funny picture of a cat. Everyone loves those.

Funny pictures of dogs are also acceptable, particularly if they're in costume.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:22:40 -0800

I'm just saying it would finally pay off, crash.

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:26:14 -0800

I tried to upload an animated .gif of a chick flashing her (enormous) boobs, but apparently everything's converted to .JPG on upload?

The same thing happened to my hypnotoad. Poor hypnotoad. Who will do his bidding now?

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:36:16 -0800

So I take a nap for a couple of hours and you fucking fucks decide that the little default cartman silhouette is "annoying" and "doesn't inspire" you to ever put up a profile picture and bitch about in such numbers that m'howie takes it down?

SCREW YOU GUYS! I'M GOING HOME!

I mean, I'm seriously here: can you put it back long enough for me to grab a screenshot of it and upload it as my profile picture? No?

SCREW YOU GUYS! HOME! I hate you guys. Especially you, Kenny.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:37:16 -0800

So, yeah...about that white stroke around the picture, can we ditch it or make it optional?

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:40:08 -0800

OK, I tried uploading this and got:

Couldn't upload your file. Please go back and make sure the file you're uploading is a JPG, GIF, or PNG. If you're sure it's the right file type and you're still getting this error, please contact the admins and describe your problem.

Yeah, it's a friggin' JPG. So why won't it upload?

I CAN HAS EZRA POUND PIKCHUR PLZ?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:43:30 -0800

I'm very tempted to upload that picture of my ass with a 'kiss this' caption.

But I won't because I am pure of heart.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:46:39 -0800

Eh WolfDaddy, this picture is still there.
http://images.metafilter.com/mefi/userphoto.png

By: Aloysius Bear

Aloysius Bear — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:48:05 -0800

languagehat, did you save it and then upload it from your computer? I don't you can just put in the URL of a picture on the web, it needs to be saved somewhere locally.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:48:19 -0800

Thank you puke & cry.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:48:46 -0800

the picture

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:51:19 -0800

...except when I re-upload it, it shows up as a gray rectangle.

By: Pope Guilty

Pope Guilty — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:52:34 -0800

While there's profile changing going on, how about making IM services work like the social apps thing, where you select from a drop-down and then put in your name?

By: iconomy

iconomy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:54:28 -0800

Couldn't upload your file. Please go back and make sure the file you're uploading is a JPG, GIF, or PNG. If you're sure it's the right file type and you're still getting this error, please contact the admins and describe your problem.

I get the same message. Over and over. In every browser. Grrr.

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:59:58 -0800

...except when I re-upload it, it shows up as a gray rectangle.

Conversion to .jpg nukes the transparency, I guess. Consider rendering it as a jpg in your image software of choice, or something.

By: chundo

chundo — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:01:24 -0800

Funny pictures of dogs are also acceptable, particularly if they're in costume.

Done.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:01:35 -0800

Ah, apparently when you upload a picture it takes the transparence out and turns it white.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:02:59 -0800

Or what cortex said.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:04:25 -0800

Yeah, it's a friggin' JPG. So why won't it upload?

We might be running into the oddball MIME-type problems like we have on Music. Try a different browser and if it works, that's the reason.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:15:54 -0800

Here's that fixed user picture if anyone else doesn't want to mess with it.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:18:37 -0800

That's the spirit, chundo.

By: KevinSkomsvold

KevinSkomsvold — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:25:23 -0800

Ok, I just realized how totally hot you all are. I heart MetaSpace.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:37:59 -0800

puke & cry: I am offended, sir. There is neither puking nor crying in your profile pic. Please see to this at once. At once!

By: pupdog

pupdog — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:38:41 -0800

Funny pictures of dogs are also acceptable, particularly if they're in costume.

Done.

Pfft. Johnny-come-lately...

By: languagehat

languagehat — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:57:22 -0800

languagehat, did you save it and then upload it from your computer? I don't you can just put in the URL of a picture on the web, it needs to be saved somewhere locally.

Thanks, it worked! (Except for the stupid cropping necessary.)

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:18:47 -0800

puke & cry: I am offended, sir. There is neither puking nor crying in your profile pic. Please see to this at once. At once!

You can borrow mine, p&c.

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:35:36 -0800

heh

By: sperose

sperose — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:04:35 -0800

This is sweeeeeeeeet.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:43:32 -0800

It would be nice to have a auto-resizing feature, such that we could make the square be as big as we like, and then whatever is in it gets shrinked down to 140x140.

prepare your image beforehand using photo-editing software. metafilter is not photo-editing software.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:45:00 -0800

exxxxcellent picture, quonsar.

(my new one is me accepting the last-place trophy in my league, on behalf of the team that was, understandably, not there to accept it themselves)

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:46:52 -0800

q that is a great pic.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:50:43 -0800

well, it's a single frame from this animated .gif.

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:52:40 -0800

such emotion!

By: yhbc

yhbc — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:53:50 -0800

I move we allow q to put that animated .gif on his profile.

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:29:11 -0800

I'M HOT

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:37:00 -0800

and gay, apparently.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:49:05 -0800

Is that SRK?

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:55:37 -0800

I'm kinda logo-y.

By: MadamM

MadamM — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:07:48 -0800

Yay pictures! Now I can finally fulfill my desire to see what everyone looks like. Totally fascinating imo.

By: dersins

dersins — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:22:50 -0800

I'M HOT

Is that why you took your shirt off, East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94?

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:32:35 -0800

I SEE YOU. I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING RIGHT NOW. ALSO, I'M CHAOTIC!

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 22:56:38 -0800

There I was, trying to figure out what picture to upload when I remembered that, oh yeah, it's MetaFilter!

By: Anything

Anything — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:33:33 -0800

All you're gonna get for now is what looks like a hate crime mugshot. I guess I should see my camera-wielding friends more often.

By: maryh

maryh — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 00:14:13 -0800

I may or may not be HOT, but I am most definitely overfilled with nitrates, insect legs, and snouts. And I never leave home without a Sack O' Sauce. It completes me.

By: Locative

Locative — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 01:04:25 -0800

Am I the only one clicking on everyone's name to look at their picture as I read this thread?

On preview: ooh, haven't seen Kattullus or Anything yet!

By: Olli

Olli — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 04:11:54 -0800

Shiny.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:09:17 -0800

So is MeFi joining OpenSocial or what?

By: jacalata

jacalata — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:23:44 -0800

Yes. (Eventually)

By: DarlingBri

DarlingBri — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:13:49 -0800

I love this metafilter pony!

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:24:01 -0800

Posting black and white pictures is NOT fashionably retro, it is disappointing.

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:46:31 -0800

who does that?

By: Anything

Anything — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:53:23 -0800

Would you add color to mine if I'd put it up?

By: astruc

astruc — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:02:16 -0800

Love this!

By: dersins

dersins — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 12:35:20 -0800

Posting black and white pictures is NOT fashionably retro, it is disappointing

What on earth could possibly be disappointing about my picture?

By: caddis

caddis — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:06:28 -0800

On the internet, no one knows that you are a dog.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:22:11 -0800

woof!

By: Anything

Anything — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:03:56 -0800

Everyone knows the monkey, but the monkey knows no one. -- Ancient [Russian/Baltic/Finnish?] proverb

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 14:19:14 -0800

JUST POSTED: ACTUAL, REAL LIFE PHOTO OF the inside of MY HEAD.

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:19:40 -0800

Would it be too much to ask everyone to upload a handwriting sample?

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:26:23 -0800

Also, I really hope a mod uploads a telltale image to anonymous's profile.

By: Dantien

Dantien — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:48:02 -0800

Boy, this really stresses me out. What picture shall I choose? Do I really want to know what bevets looks like? Gah!

By: lazaruslong

lazaruslong — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:59:28 -0800

This and contact activity is awesome. I gotta go add some folks now.

By: caddis

caddis — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:16:25 -0800

Would it be too much to ask everyone to upload a handwriting sample?

You wouldn't be able to read it.

By: justonegirl

justonegirl — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:12:16 -0800

I love this.

By: TochterAusElysium

TochterAusElysium — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:26:58 -0800

I like it! Now I can use my profile photo to make the subtle point that if I post a stupid comment, it's only because I was probably drunk at the time.

By: FunkyHelix

FunkyHelix — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:20:12 -0800

I did it. After posting my geeky halloween costume, I had to have something up that proves I don't always dress like that.

By: sgt.serenity

sgt.serenity — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:33:40 -0800

i have a snake on my head.

By: rmless

rmless — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:49:40 -0800

Look I got a haircut.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 09:25:10 -0800

hawt!

By: pb

pb — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:35:51 -0800

It would be nice to have a auto-resizing feature, such that we could make the square be as big as we like, and then whatever is in it gets shrinked down to 140x140.

Done! And I added a note that you can hold the Shift key while you adjust the crop box to keep a perfect square. That way whatever you select won't be distorted when it gets resized to 140.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 13:54:51 -0800

Oh sweet! Thanks pb.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:05:29 -0800

That's cool, pb, thanks.

Also, damn am I hot right now.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:17:35 -0800

Is this the part of the thread where we drop all pretense of modesty and get attention the easy way? I got boobs on and they're all soapy and stuff. Oooh. ooh.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:24:22 -0800

I also have soap on my boobs.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:36:03 -0800

you know, you really should rinse off properly before putting your clothes back on. nothing like a mouthful of crusty dried suds to sour a romantic encounter.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:39:14 -0800

What makes you think he's wearing clothes? Maybe the admins have stopped doing that, in order to increase transparency.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:39:26 -0800

I know it's been mentioned umpteen times before, cortex, but that's a really, really big donut.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:00:00 -0800

What makes you think he's wearing clothes? Maybe the admins have stopped doing that

what? no more furry suits?

By: vronsky

vronsky — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:01:21 -0800

Yeah srsly cortex, can I have a bite of that donut?

By: dersins

dersins — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:08:02 -0800

I know it's been mentioned umpteen times before, cortex, but that's a really, really big donut.

Also mentioned before: that's what all the laddies say.

Yeah srsly cortex, can I have a bite of that donut?

That, too.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:15:07 -0800

How 'bout you dersins.. got any donuts?

By: dersins

dersins — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:41:04 -0800

No, but I've got a giant creme-filled eclair for you right here, IYKWIM.

AITYD.

sorry.

By: liquorice

liquorice — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:02:51 -0800

Hey, I can favourite things in my Recent Activity now. Coolies.

By: hjo3

hjo3 — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:21:40 -0800

Now we just need the ability to comment on profile pages and add music that plays automatically...