Topic: How about larger avatars?

[Geemonster]

The ones i use elsewhere are too big here..whassup with that?

[smokester]

It's not a problem now as I've banned you anyhow.

You might want to think again about posting obscene gifs (in avatar form or other) for children to see; round here we have a name for people like that.

[8ullfrog]

Seriously though, I like smaller avatars, and tend to block sigs when they pop up with adblock.

I know forums aren't democracies, but I'd oppose mondo-avatars.

[dweez]

Hmm, so you don't like my zombie sig?  :sadface:

[SACPOP]

Make 'em as big as you want. I have all that crap turned off anyway.

[goldshirt*9]

I did wonder how long if would be before gee would be banned.not that I have a problem with that sort of avatar in the right place !!!!!.
But after he slated smokes, post his last exit, he kind of asked for the ban, if not revels in it 
Well done smokes

[8ullfrog]

I like your sig, I just don't like sigs in general. I guess that makes me a hypocrit

[goldshirt*9]

No it makes you , you
I forget I have them.

[6pairsofshoes]

I block them as I find the animated sigs distracting.  I don't feel a need for larger avatars, especially after yesterday's gif experiments.  Wouldn't want my kids logging in for that one, either.  What is it my grandfather used to say?

"Some people don't have the sense that God gave a goat."

[tarascon]

I wanted to use Vishnu as my avatar but that would have meant having an avvy as large as the universe. So I settled for Beckett.

[6pairsofshoes]

Bigger than non existent would be good for me.

I deleted the blurry photobucket one.  Then I tried to link one via Dropbox.  Zip.  Then imgur.  Nothing.  So out of desperation I went back to photobucket.  Again, even with the original avvy nothing happens when I link it.  I've done this before, so what's different?  I post the link and it supposedly works and then there's no avatar, so it clearly isn't doing what I intend.

Anyone who may have some insights into this would be doing me a favor to explain how to get my avatar back up.  Thanks in advance.

[smokester]

Photobucket is not having it so I screen grabbed it and upped it local to this site. It you have the original please link it here (not using PB) and I'll overwrite it.

SSL also creates problems with the avatar system so it seems.

To link to a picture on dropbox: Use all of the link (https:// through to the dl=0). Then change ?dl=0 to ?raw=1 at the end of the link. Put the whole thing from h to 0 into the [ img ] [ /img ] tags.

... and then remember that avatars are a pain in the arse, and that (a) they may not work, (b) Smokes may have (inadvertently?) disabled them, ( c) size limitations, (d) reasons.

... it looks to me like (b), as I can't add an avatar to my account. It may only be available to veterans with post counts higher than 2, though.

Nothing had actually been changed other that the redirect to the SSL version and that could well be the issue. More likely is that our server is getting a bit shonky of late with more outages than usual so it could just be a service out when we've tried.

The boy has his own server somewhere so I might ask him to host us.

[6pairsofshoes]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fxdrv06hna4yafl/avvy%20-%201.jpg?dl=0

I tried chris's suggestions and it didn't work, so I'm still scratching my head with this one.

Wow.  That was fast.  Thank you to whomever managed to get that to work.

[8ullfrog]

Looks like they got you back in business, but I have to admit, I found the fading photophucket avatars somewhat interesting. I was wondering if it would eventually fade to a solid color, because they blurred them, and then they ADDITIONALLY blurred them. As if the first hit wasn't insulting enough.

[6pairsofshoes]

I did that when I posted the images of berries earlier and it works fine in the threads, but after I changed the avvy photo, and tried to post the altered url in the Profile settings, it kept kicking back to "No Avatar."  For some reason the Profile settings don't like that url.