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Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

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Post by liveshops_ »

michaelmior wrote: post #4
crossman wrote: post #2

Could be useful to have an option to specify adult/child/all ages. I mean, I know they're placeholders. But it would seem odd to see children in our staging app since I don't think many children are involved in B2B sales.

It would also be nice if there were an option to specify male or female. I could see this being useful for randomly generating some users for prototypes and it would be nice if it were possible to have the name more consistent with the photo.

that was my first thought, too.

Really nice tool, though!

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

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Post by spdustin »

sanqui wrote: post #5

Not everybody uses a photo of a face for an avatar. :)

Even with the emoticon, that comment seemed designed to put down the project by suggesting its author is shortsighted and has failed to see how things really work in the really real world.

Was it your intent to condescend and hope it goes unnoticed by the addition of a few bits of punctuation? To belittle the work that went into it? Because, to be frank with you, that's how it seemed to me.

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

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Post by spdustin »

vertex-four wrote: post #9
moron4hire wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does that have to do with placeholders? Lorem Ipsum doesn't accurately represent all the types of things people write.

No, but the point of Lorem Ipsum is it blends into the page reasonably, real text or not. If you were writing e.g. a template for a piece of forum software which doesn't use real names, the vast majority of people use avatars that are not pictures of faces, and if you wound up designing around face pictures (bright, certain colour tones, etc etc), your design might clash slightly with what people actually use.

Well then you wouldn't use this project, would you? I wouldn't use a phone book for a user directory, but I also wouldn't suggest the phone company has failed by not releasing a book consisting solely of my employees' details.

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

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Post by WorldMaker »

vertex-four wrote: post #9
moron4hire wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does that have to do with placeholders? Lorem Ipsum doesn't accurately represent all the types of things people write.

No, but the point of Lorem Ipsum is it blends into the page reasonably, real text or not. If you were writing e.g. a template for a piece of forum software which doesn't use real names, the vast majority of people use avatars that are not pictures of faces, and if you wound up designing around face pictures (bright, certain colour tones, etc etc), your design might clash slightly with what people actually use.

In which case you might use something more like https://robohash.org/ (which was just the first off top of my head).

There are a number of convert a hash to some stylized avatar tools out there already. I've seen fewer examples like Pravatar with actual headshot photos for design use.

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

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Post by franciscop »

Such a pity that https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/1y2k1dtp/ brings the same picture 5 times (cache and all of that). Maybe it could be added to the homepage a small explanation about why this works as expected: https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/L52as3z8/

Also, check out http://chancejs.com/ , maybe you can integrate it there for random content generation (:

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

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Post by spdustin »

franciscop wrote: post #16

Such a pity that https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/1y2k1dtp/ brings the same picture 5 times (cache and all of that). Maybe it could be added to the homepage a small explanation about why this works as expected: https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/L52as3z8/ Also, check out http://chancejs.com/ , maybe you can integrate it there for random content generation (:

Pretty much every image placeholder service I've used does that.

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

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Post by yaur »

franciscop wrote: post #16

Such a pity that https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/1y2k1dtp/ brings the same picture 5 times (cache and all of that). Maybe it could be added to the homepage a small explanation about why this works as expected: https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/L52as3z8/ Also, check out http://chancejs.com/ , maybe you can integrate it there for random content generation (:

Your second link has a (cache busting) query string.

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

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Post by rplnt »

michaelmior wrote: post #4
crossman wrote: post #2

Could be useful to have an option to specify adult/child/all ages. I mean, I know they're placeholders. But it would seem odd to see children in our staging app since I don't think many children are involved in B2B sales.

It would also be nice if there were an option to specify male or female. I could see this being useful for randomly generating some users for prototypes and it would be nice if it were possible to have the name more consistent with the photo.

Also race if you are using it for certain markets.

And perhaps setting (casual/business).

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

#20

Post by sanqui »

spdustin wrote: post #13
sanqui wrote: post #5

Not everybody uses a photo of a face for an avatar. :)

Even with the emoticon, that comment seemed designed to put down the project by suggesting its author is shortsighted and has failed to see how things really work in the really real world. Was it your intent to condescend and hope it goes unnoticed by the addition of a few bits of punctuation? To belittle the work that went into it? Because, to be frank with you, that's how it seemed to me.

All I can say is it absolutely wasn't my intent to belittle the work that went into the project. I only felt like sharing what went through my mind when seeing that all of the avatars were faces.

There are many sites where faces are expected, like Facebook or LinkedIn. The internet is larger than that, though, and some people prefer to identify in other ways. Maybe I should've been more explicit about the conversation starter.

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