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AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#1 Postby vbhoutex » Thu Jun 23, 2016 8:34 am

We have had an incident with a members avatar that changed from what they had(possibly an outside the site avatar. which are allowed as long as they follow our rules) to an advertisement. the member did not do this nor did anyone on staff.
The take away here is to PLEASE CHECK YOUR AVATARS IF THEY ARE FROM AN OUTSIDE SOURCE to be sure something like this has not happened and does not happen. Our staff doesn't check everyone avatar. Thanks for helping us with this.
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Re: AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#2 Postby WeatherGuesser » Wed Jun 29, 2016 3:18 pm

Can something be done about file sizes? Is this appropriate? 4,042.94 KB (4,139,967 bytes)
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Re: AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#3 Postby tolakram » Wed Jun 29, 2016 4:15 pm

WeatherGuesser wrote:Can something be done about file sizes? Is this appropriate? 4,042.94 KB (4,139,967 bytes)


Can you report a post with the 4mb avatar so we can look?
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Re: AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#4 Postby WeatherGuesser » Wed Jun 29, 2016 5:00 pm

tolakram wrote:
WeatherGuesser wrote:Can something be done about file sizes? Is this appropriate? 4,042.94 KB (4,139,967 bytes)


Can you report a post with the 4mb avatar so we can look?



Done, but I guess you found it at the same time since it's gone now. I've seen several others well over 1M, but I forget who has them now.
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Re: AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#5 Postby WeatherGuesser » Thu Jun 30, 2016 6:25 pm

tolakram wrote:
WeatherGuesser wrote:Can something be done about file sizes? Is this appropriate? 4,042.94 KB (4,139,967 bytes)


Can you report a post with the 4mb avatar so we can look?


Was that reinstated? I'm seeing another post with one the same size, but I can't remember if it was the same person.
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Re: AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#6 Postby tolakram » Thu Jun 30, 2016 6:32 pm

WeatherGuesser wrote:
tolakram wrote:
WeatherGuesser wrote:Can something be done about file sizes? Is this appropriate? 4,042.94 KB (4,139,967 bytes)


Can you report a post with the 4mb avatar so we can look?


Was that reinstated? I'm seeing another post with one the same size, but I can't remember if it was the same person.


I didn't see or ask anyone to change anything. Not sure what you are seeing.
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Re: AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#7 Postby WeatherGuesser » Thu Jun 30, 2016 7:26 pm

tolakram wrote:
WeatherGuesser wrote:
tolakram wrote:
Can you report a post with the 4mb avatar so we can look?


Was that reinstated? I'm seeing another post with one the same size, but I can't remember if it was the same person.


I didn't see or ask anyone to change anything. Not sure what you are seeing.



Post reported again.
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Re: AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#8 Postby abajan » Mon Jul 25, 2016 6:55 am

If the file size of an avatar is too big, use TinyPNG to reduce it before uploading. TinyPNG will maintain the quality (to the naked eye) while considerably reducing the file size.
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Re: AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#9 Postby tronbunny » Tue Aug 27, 2019 6:46 am

Can we actually upload an avatar. the only option I see is gallery or remote link.
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Re: AVATARS-ALL PLEASE READ

#10 Postby tolakram » Tue Aug 27, 2019 7:14 am

tronbunny wrote:Can we actually upload an avatar. the only option I see is gallery or remote link.


Not at the moment, no. Should be fixed sometime next year, after the Atlantic hurricane season.
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