Find new system extremely confusing as need to know names of posters if they do not use personal avatar - when two people registered with name starting with "T" are displayed as the same avatar it is very hard to keep track of a conversation.  Can we turn off?  With just the old same for everyone you looked at name but now we are splashed with a huge colored letter that cannot be ignored.  Not an improvement IMHO.

Yeah I can't really see any benefit to it. It isn't like the first letter of an alias is very distinguishing. 

I wish more people would post an avatar. I remember avatars much more easily than names.

I have gotten accustomed to the letters now. At first it bothered me a little.

I think putting the letter of the first or last name is standard on many websites now. Yahoo and Google use it now for the first name.

16 hours ago, canuckamuck said:

I wish more people would post an avatar.

 

I have a sneaking suspicion the change in the default avatar was in fact made to induce more members to upload a personal avatar. The old default image always reminded me of one type of target used for shooting practice in the Swiss army.

 

 

The new system is a big change, but I am optimistic about getting used to it within a few months.

Hi,

This could be turned off, however its default for most sites as stated we it was decided to keep it.

 

TD