User blog comment:Rupert Giles/Global Navigation January Update/@comment-452-20150205134929


 * (I'm not singling out the person directly below, I've seen this coming up multiple times)


 * tl;dr: If I wanted my avatar to appear as round in other users' notifications, I would upload a round avatar.

I've noticed a few people requesting the avatar rounding be reduced, but to keep some of the rounding. I don't see any reason for there to be any rounding at all. If you want to mess with the the Wikia logo, fine, but leave people's avatars alone.

Personally, mine has a tiny bit of a rounded border anyway, so could survive up to 20% before being noticeable, but there's really no reason to do it at all: if someone wanted their avatar borders rounded, then they can round their borders themselves.

I think it should be "border-radius:0" = no rounding at all, as is the case with avatars displayed all over the rest of Wikia.

What you should do is support transparency in avatars, to allow people who want to have round avatars, or rounded corners, to do it themselves it a way which wouldn't clash with the background of other wikis.


 * "What's the big deal, it's just round for you personally in the header, it's not like we cropped your avatar everywhere."

I am not the only one seeing my avatar being rounded. If I leave someone a Wall message, or reply to a thread they are following, they see my avatar as rounded in their notifications.