Under Consideration How Do You Feel About Customising Your Profiles Even More?

[Zwielicht]

I was looking for some add-ons that allow users to customise their profiles when I came across this: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/ap-style-suite.8282/

It looks like it’s a more modern take on that old MySpace level of customisation; that is to say, it’s not as annoying, but it gives you a lot more freedom to personalise your profiles.

What does everyone think about this add-on?

 

[Octavia]

Features​

• Extends Xenforo User Criteria for Trophy support
• Users can disable all styles if they find them annoying
• Users can ignore each others styles
• Admin options
  • Can globally disable each style type
  • Can choose if username icons should inherit usergroup color or allow separate styling
  • Can choose square or round avatar types
  • Can choose maximum username icon image height & width
  • Can choose maximum postbit background height & width
  • Can choose minimum & maximum font size for post styles
  • Can globally disable each custom profile block type
  • Can restrict specific usergroups username color to 5 chosen by the admin
• Can manage various options for avatar frames, fonts, sparkles, and postbit presets
  • Rename
  • Set display order
  • Restrict access to specific user-groups
  • Upload image / font
• Style properties
  • Prevent animated glow CSS from being loaded
  • Prevent custom title style CSS from being loaded
  • Prevent avatar frame CSS from being loaded
  • Prevent font CSS from being loaded
  • Prevent sparkle CSS from being loaded
  • Prevent username style CSS from being loaded
  • Prevent tooltip style CSS from being loaded
  • Disable profile styles
  • Sparkle width
  • Sticky style previews
  • Sticky preview position offset
  • Input slider background color
  • Input slider thumb color
  • CSS box gutter background color
  • CSS box slider background color
  • CSS box slider thumb color
  • Postbit gradient start color
  • Postbit gradient end color
  • Postbit gradient direction
• Custom title style
  • Bold, italic, underline
  • Color
    • Solid color
    • Gradient color
  • Font family
  • Glow color
  • "None", "Weak", "Medium", "Strong", "Animated", "Custom" glow strengths
  • Fill your text with an image ("Inner-text animations")
  • Sparkle
• Postbit style
  • Disable postbit backgrounds if you don't like them
  • Accepts image URLs, uploads, or a preset choice for a background
  • "No repeat", "Horizontal", "Vertical", "Both" background repeat options
  • Sliders for controlling X & Y axis position of the background image
  • "Auto", "contain", "cover" background size options
  • Opacity
  • Brightness
  • Contrast
  • Text color
  • Text shadow
  • CSS
• Post style
  • Disable post styles if you don't like them
  • Bold, italic, underline
  • Color
  • Font family
  • Font size
• Profile style
  • Header
  • Header height (px)
  • Navbar background color
  • Page background
    • Color
    • Image
  • Sticky page background
  • Page background repeat
  • Page background position
  • Page background size
  • Font color
  • URL color
  • Highlight color
  • Box header color
  • Box background color
  • Border color
  • Button color
  • Scrollbar color
  • Scrollbar background color
  • Scrollbar width
  • Scrollbar radius
  • CSS
• Tooltip style
  • Font color
  • URL color
  • Highlight color
  • Box background color
  • Border color
  • Button color
• Username style
  • Bold, italic, underline
  • Color
    • Solid color
    • Gradient color
  • Font family
  • Glow color
  • "None", "Weak", "Medium", "Strong", "Animated", "Custom" glow strengths
  • Fill your text with an image ("Inner-text animations")
  • Fontawesome or image URL icons
  • "Before" or "After" icon position
  • Icon color
  • Sparkle
• Custom profile blocks
  • Soundcloud audio
  • Spotify audio
  • Text
  • TikTok video
  • Twitter feed
  • Youtube video

I like that it has the option to keep it default ( Users can ignore each others styles ).

Question 1: Will it cause the site to load slower ?
Question 2: Will users to not be overwhelmed by having too many options?
Question 3: Since users can customize, won't it be a seizure inducing experience for everyone ? ( new and existing users)

 

[Zwielicht]

1. It's possible, but the current server should be able to handle it just fine. Even still, it'll most likely increase page load times for individual profiles.
2. If I purchased this, I might disable some of the features. For instance, I'd probably disable the username colour change.
3. Yeah, that was an issue on MySpace. Thankfully, even that aspect of it can be disabled.

If this were to be added, I would have to make sure the experience is balanced between fun and sensible. So avatar frames and adjusting username/banner fonts heights on the profile itself would be enabled, but then the more annoying stuff like playing music from your profile would be disabled. Don't get me wrong, I liked that feature on MySpace. but I don't think I need to be blasting everyone with "Natural Born Killers" on my profile in this age.

It's something I would need to look into a lot more before we could add it in, but I mainly wanted to see what others thought of it.

Admittedly, I found this add-on when I was looking for a way to add avatar frames, but I don't need this add-on in order to do that as there's another, lighter weight add-on that does that specifically. Edit: Actually, this seems like the only good add-on that can do this. So if nobody is interested in the other aspects, I can disable everything else as I only really wanted to do something with usergroups and avatar frames.

 

[Rem]

I think avatar frames and usergroups is a mega +
alot of the features screams too much at times.
although, give me

k thanks.

I also think, if we do add some of the stuff, put it behind sapphire/patron instead.
Remember, usually, the fancier you look, the more people are going to instantly trust you.

 

[roydan]

Honestly, I think it's too much. Very hard to digest all of it as a new user, and even as a not-so-new user.

 

[Zwielicht]

Based on the responses so far, if you we get this, I'd have to massively limit the customisation so that we don't have a full-blown MySpace situation.

I'll keep waiting to see what others say about this before making a final decision.