Has anyone figured out a way to show kivafriends.org in their avatar without affecting the mapping feature? I posted on the Loan to break the record thread that it seemed to prevent the mapping from working.
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I will watch how the mapping function unfolds and the bugs get worked out before reaching any conclusion, but it might lead me to take Kiva Friends off our Avatar. Of course I will leave it until this loan gets funded.
Well, the short answer is no. I tried placing KivaFriends.org in other fields and it doesn't work. The lender name field doesn't allow enough characters and if you put it in either the City or State/Province field, you are left off the map.
I doubt you'll be the only one to take KivaFriends.org off their lender avatar so that the map works for them AND probably new folks will be very hesitant to break their map feature by adding KivaFriends.org to their lender avatar, SO, the Record Breaking Loan attempt is probably going to be THE record for a long time to come.
Let's at least follow Dan in this; Do no take KivaFriends.org off your lender avatar until after the Record Breaking loan funds and I take a snapshot of the loan details and get a final count. After that, well, you can do whatever you want. The map feature isn't very interesting to me. I got bored of it after seeing two or three except for to see where the borrower was located. So, I won't be taking KF off mine, but that's my own personal decision.
I wonder if Kiva would somehow work with us to allow us to have this link appear beneath our lender avatar...
-Scott
p.s. As Dolphine points out, if you can fit KivaFriends.org in your Display Name field on your My Lender Page in your account, it will appear and you will show up on the map. You cannot exceed 24 characters, so that leaves a max of 8 characters (assumes a space) for your username. It will not appear as a link. That doesn't work for my lender name.
