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Oct 14th 08 Posted by admin in Dave's ESL Cafe

Dave’s ESL Cafe: Avatarizer + Imagizer + Profilizer

If you have Firefox with Greasemonkey installed on your computer (PC/Mac/Linux), then you can take advantage of my custom user script for automatically making it appear that you have added your avatar to all of your posts on any forum on Dave’s ESL Cafe Forums.

This script also comes with a loosely-related but perhaps more useful feature: image links in any post are automatically displayed as largish-thumbnails in the bottom of that post. Here’s a screenshot:

Automatically embedded images in Dave's ESL Cafe Forums

Automatically embedded images in Dave

Finally, this script also fixes the profile link for any poster, so that clicking on their name or avatar takes you properly to their profile instead of to an error page.

Install The Script

Installation Instructions

  1. Find a picture you’d like to use as your avatar, and copy its address to your clipboard. It’s a good idea to use a picture located on your own server (or Flickr or Facebook or something) for this purpose. You can also use a TinyURL;
  2. Install this userscript;
  3. The first time you view (or reload) a topic in Dave’s ESL Cafe, the page will ask you to enter your username – this is the username under which your avatar will be displayed;
  4. Next, the page will ask you to enter your avatar’s address – just paste it into the box from your clipboard;
  5. Done! You will see your avatar below your username next to any post you have written on Dave’s ESL Cafe, in any forum.

Features Summary

  • Avatarizer: Displays your avatar under any of your posts;
  • Imagizer: If someone makes a post with an image link in it (JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP), then that image will be automatically embedded at the bottom of that post. If there is more than one image, they will be displayed at the bottom of the post in the order they were mentioned.  This feature is particularly useful on the buy/sell/trade forums;
  • Profile Bug Fixer: When you click on anyone’s username next to his/her post, it should serve as a link to that person’s profile. Unfortunately, this link address seems to be broken by default on the username and non-existent on the avatar, so this script fixes it.  Now, clicking on any person’s username or avatar takes you to their profile.

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