Add your location to your profile and an avatar picture

[Glenn MacGrady]

The site is configured to show four items of information about members in the information block under the avatar next to every message: Date Joined, # of Messages, Reaction Score, and Location. Member location is probably irrelevant for many discussion sites, but it is quite informative to other members on this site when you discuss your local water and weather conditions, or ask about local canoe routes and destinations, canoe vendors, canoe storage, canoe symposia, and other canoe things that vary by locality.

Therefore, please consider adding your location to your profile, so it shows up under your avatar in your message information block. The location is a "clickable" link to Google maps.

Also, avatar pictures add interest and spice to a forum. Note that if you are using a picture, the recommended size is LARGER than 400x400 pixels, unlike some forums that require a very low pixel picture. If you use a low pixel picture, or have a low pixel picture that was migrated over from vBulletin, it may show up blurry. The Xenforo software will shrink even large pictures down to the appropriate avatar size.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

I'd like to again encourage members to put your location in your profile, so your location will then show up in the information block under your avatar in every post. So many times I can't quite figure out the context of a post until I realize the person is talking about Alaska or Florida or Iowa or wherever.

The procedure is simple: Just click on your small avatar/name, above, on the right side of the information bar underneath the site logo. Then click "Account details". Then fill in your location in the "Location" field.

While you're in "Account details", you can also upload an avatar picture of the specified size. I think having custom picture avatars makes any site look more lively, more visually entertaining and more crafted by a human touch, rather than generated by a computer algorithm.

 

[Mike McCrea]

 

[Mason]

But then they'll know where I am.........

 

[scratchypants]

I was going to get around to it eventually...

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

But then they'll know where I am.........

Not if you go canoeing.

Or do like the princess bride immediately above you, who has apparently camouflaged himself in the weeds and zoned out his already nondescript town. But I have to give him credit for complying with this technical request, since he freelandly admits that he knows so little about computers that someone in his family has to press the on/off button for him.

But wait! This topic has just taught me something I did not know about Xenforo. If you click on the person's location in the information block, Google maps opens up to show it (or tries to).

 

[Mason]

the on/off button for him.

There's an off button????? Maybe that's the solution. Can they find me if my computer's not running?
Asking for a friend....

 

[GeoBoy]

Done.

 

[Will Derness]

Once I was able to find a suitable image, that was easily done, Thanks for the tutorial Glenn.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Done.

Welcome to site membership, GeoBoy!

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Bump for new members. Your location, especially, is important for this kind of geographically oriented discussion site.

 

[Thestripper]

Do you remember those maps that people used to have on "their homepage" in the early internet days? The map showed a world map and a red dot for where the visitors to that site where located. That would be interesting to see on this site if such a thing exists nowadays. I'm guessing that most people on here are in the north eastern parts of the US and Canada but I might be wrong. I'm in Norway but I would be surprised if there are more than a handful of other Scandinavians on this forum.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Do you remember those maps that people used to have on "their homepage" in the early internet days? The map showed a world map and a red dot for where the visitors to that site where located.

As stated above, when you put your location in your profile, thus causing it to show up in the information block under your avatar in every post, the location is "clickable". So, whenever you click on the person's location in the information block, Google maps opens up to show the named location (or tries to). The more specific you are with your location, as by stating your exact town, the more accurate the Google map will be.

 

[recped]

Googly is so smart and they answered my question about how recognizable my location is! When I click the link my house is almost dead centre on the displayed map.

 

[Mason]

Googly is so smart and they answered my question about how recognizable my location is! When I click the link my house is almost dead centre on the displayed map.

So which building do you keep your boats in? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[JohnSand]

That wasn't too hard.

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

That wasn't too hard.

Of course not, and Google maps seems to know the island to which you refer. I was born and raised in NYC on "the Island", but contrary to you Long Islanders, "the" Island is not Long Island.

 

[JohnSand]

Riker's?

 

[Glenn MacGrady]

Not yet . . . . Staten ("the") Island . . . the least known borough of NYC, which used to be mostly forests and farms and beaches when I grew up there before it became Brooklynized by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in 1964.

 

[JohnSand]

I have a friend who grew up there and tells great stories.