Hi,
Using SP last version with buddypress integration plugin, all links leads to buddypress.
I changed avatar size on forum to 150 to match buddypress avatars.
The problem is buddypress thumbs is 50 pix, and sp takes the bp thumbs and resize it –> ugly avatar 
Any idea how I can get the same quality avatar for buddypress/simplepress with my setup?
BP_AVATAR_THUMB
Basicly I want SP buddypress plugin to use
yikes! a 150px avatar… 
thats big for each post in the forum… hopefully, they are small enough in file size to not cause a performance hit…
of course, for folks using more traditional sized avatars, using the full size will cause a performance hit too because the image, while displayed smaller, will be the larger file size.
I will run some tests and see what a typical performance hit for the larger image is… It may be negligible… If its not, I can consider adding an option for which image to use with suggestion to only use full size if you are using large sized avatars…
I will be on a business trip starting Sunday, so this may not get done until after I get back…
You think so ?
My community is used to pretty big avatars, I think 50 pix is a bit small, I can probably use 100 pix
No worries. Using anything bigger than the BP thumb won’t scale up nicely. An actually the plugin just calls the BP avatar routine and not being a BP user, didn’t even know there was argument to get the different size.
And as I said, just need to test the performance hit on a topic view page using the larger size and determine if can use it or need an option. On Jul 5, 2013 4:12 PM, “Simple:Press Support” wrote:
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managed to squeeze in some testing tonight… uploading various avatars to bp and seeing the size difference between the thumb and the full..
with the various images I was uploaded, I am seeing about an 8:1 differential… so if I updated a 5k avatar (typically what I use and about what you would get from gravatar.com), I was seeing a BP full size image of about 40k…
so if you have 10-20 posts in a topic view page, that would be quite a substantial increase in image bytes downloaded… might even be noticeable…
but I clearly understand how you need the bigger image if you have an avatar larger than the BP thumb as it scales quite crappily…
so I think it will be a selectable option…
@Denis, if you wanted to look at some of your uploaded BP avatars and compare the thumb file size vs the full file size, that would be another data point…
I have uploaded an updated BuddyPress integration plugin in the beta topic… it includes the option to select the full size BP avatar…