David Levene Posted 30 August 2008 Share Posted 30 August 2008 Ok, I' sure this has been asked before but i'm damned if I can remember the solution. I've got new computeritus. I cannot see any obvious difference between the setup on my new and old machines but, whereas members' avatars displayed perfectly on the old machine, the new one just shows the little cross. XP Pro SP3, IE 7, McAfee VS Plus, Windows firewall (on or off). Exactly the same set up on the two machines, but obviously something is different. Any ideas anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemmers Posted 30 August 2008 Share Posted 30 August 2008 No, the same has happened to me. Must be the forum because it was working fine earlier, and I've not done anything to my setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest jonm Posted 30 August 2008 Share Posted 30 August 2008 Its wierd, if you cut and paste the url of the image it works... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KTC Posted 30 August 2008 Share Posted 30 August 2008 It definitely seems to be the forum. I can see mine, but my is a linked image hosted offsite, whereas other people will be uploaded to forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Levene Posted 31 August 2008 Author Share Posted 31 August 2008 Thanks folks. Why do these things always happen at the wrong time. Now all I've got to do is figure out what cahanges I made to try and see the avatars, and reverse them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil Posted 31 August 2008 Share Posted 31 August 2008 Not you David ... but I'm shooting in a comp today so I'll look later on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil Posted 31 August 2008 Share Posted 31 August 2008 Ok, I see what it is - appear ok now? Sorry about that folks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveR Posted 31 August 2008 Share Posted 31 August 2008 Ok, I see what it is - appear ok now?Sorry about that folks! Yes works fine for me now Neil. Thanks, Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Levene Posted 31 August 2008 Author Share Posted 31 August 2008 Back to normal. Thanks Neil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dave_C Posted 11 September 2008 Share Posted 11 September 2008 Any chance you could increase the size limit of the uploaded avatar? It took an hour to get <- this Animation down to 20kb and it looks very clunky because of all the frames I had to take out. I was gonna make a new avatar, but it's very difficult to get the size down that low. Would it break the server to may move it up to 80kb? Or... Is it possible to host a larger animated GIF elsewhere and display it? Cheers, Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Levene Posted 11 September 2008 Author Share Posted 11 September 2008 Is it possible, at a member-by-member level, to just turn off displaying animated avatars while leaving the static ones visible. Animated ones are so annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dave_C Posted 11 September 2008 Share Posted 11 September 2008 Is it possible, at a member-by-member level, to just turn off displaying animated avatars while leaving the static ones visible. Animated ones are so annoying. That's not very nice - I put a lot of effort into my avatar to make it work and look unique from a technical point of view, I don't think it would be easy to disable animated Logos like mine, because it is just a GIF file and many members use static GIFs as avatars. If you are really offended by it, i can go back to my boring old static GIF. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Levene Posted 11 September 2008 Author Share Posted 11 September 2008 If you are really offended by it, i can go back to my boring old static GIF. It takes a lot to offend me. 20kb isn't going to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dave_C Posted 11 September 2008 Share Posted 11 September 2008 If you are really offended by it, i can go back to my boring old static GIF. It takes a lot to offend me. 20kb isn't going to do it. If you're using IE, you can apparently just hit escape and it stops animating any images - works on my machine. Or you could permanently turn them off using - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/02/d...mated-gifs.html But then you'd be missing out on some wonderful content on other sites. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Levene Posted 11 September 2008 Author Share Posted 11 September 2008 If you're using IE, you can apparently just hit escape and it stops animating any images - works on my machine. Thanks for the tip. But then you'd be missing out on some wonderful content on other sites. Wouldn't want to do that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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