We all have discussed at one point or another about the join form and getting the members to upload an avatar/profile photo.
Back during 7.0.x Zarcon came up with an excellent fix that I applied to a 7.0.x site long ago forcing the photo on the join process.
All along I was thinking how cool this was, now I can make my new members upload a photo no matter, and it works for sure.
When I upgraded the site to 7.1.x the forcing of the avatar/photo carried over to my surprise, trying to apply the fix to a "new" 7.1.x site does not.
Why am I discussing this you might be wondering about now...
I decided to test on most popular site that I applied the mandantory photo on someones "tablet."
To my horror on a tablet, uploading of photos is "disabled" I didn't know this because I have never tested on one.
Now this takes me back to why I was noticing how many of my join.php page hits were not finished, I went a bit deeper to look; it's because they were using a tablet or phone of some type. This is very discouraging and my site has to have an avatar/photo to join, so now I will be forced to allow signup's without a photo.
Looking at this one site, 25% of the total users are mobile.
How will we be able to get around this? You see one fourth of my users are not using a PC.