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What happened to avatars?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 4:50 pm
by Bankai
I am unable to see avatars of any users including my own, with the only exception being JennyPenny's - anyone else is having this issue? I tried different devices and browsers...
Re: What happened to avatars?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:06 pm
by Jean
I have the same issue.
Re: What happened to avatars?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:21 pm
by Stahlmann
that's a feature! (saving your mobile data)
Re: What happened to avatars?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:34 pm
by Dream of Freedom
I see Stahlmann's. I'm perfectly okay not seeing Jean's.
Re: What happened to avatars?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:36 pm
by Bankai
Yeah I see Stahlmann's as well, but I think it's a brand new one? I still don't see my own or the pissing man's, and it's not data as it's the same on desktop.
Re: What happened to avatars?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:46 pm
by Stahlmann
simply something borked.
Re: What happened to avatars?
Posted: Mon Jun 17, 2019 5:53 pm
by Jean
I'm starting to think that it was a subtle way to have me get a new avatar. But I'm surprised most people only saw it as about pissing. I liked the hat and my shoulders. Someone had to tell me for me to notice that I was pissing. It makes me wan't to take a picture of me shiting for my new avatar (even though I know the bug is just a bug).
Re: What happened to avatars?
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:22 am
by figmenter
Actually it is due to a recent upgrade of phpBB. I'm not sure what exactly changed. The previous option for loading and using avatars got removed. If I have to venture a guess, linking remote images got more and more unreliable.
Jacob and I have enabled uploading a (small) image file (JPEG or PNG) for use as an avatar. These images are stored on and served from the ERE server.
Re: What happened to avatars?
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:50 am
by Dream of Freedom
It's good to see Jacob is getting some tech help.
Re: What happened to avatars?
Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2019 9:57 am
by C40
As of now:
The old maximum size for Avatars was 150 by 150 pixels. It recently changed to 100x100 pixels. Avatars of users who had a 150x150 image stopped being used/shown in posts. If you want to fix yours, you can go into your control panel, save the image, change it to 100x100 and re-upload. (which I just did, and that's why mine works again now)