Important Announcement about Avatars

[san00b]

Due to drastically exceeding our bandwidth this month, we will no longer be allowing avatars to be uploaded to our forums. That was an oversight on our part, and should have never been enabled to begin with.

Come this Friday, all avatars hosted on our website will be deleted. Anyone interested in keeping their avatar should upload it somewhere else.

Once avatars are deleted, there will be no way to retrieve them.

Once again, you have until Friday.

 

[Razinao]

It appears that our avatar-editing link (so we can streamline change to uploaded avatars from elsewhere) is disabled.

http://blocktopia.net/forum/account/avatar

Is this intentional, or is it only very temporarily as you reconfigure the page?

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[Deadl0ck]

uh, this is due to an oversight in the forum software. Telling the software usergroup cannot upload avatars = no access to avatar page. Also, there is no link possibility. Just upload or gravatar. We are looking into it.

Meanwhile, we are enabling access to avatar section again, in case people want to switch over to gravatar. (the only option available right now.) Upload limit for avatars will be set at 1 byte.

 

[GmK]

Hm, the default I used when I set up forums was 64Kb per avatar max, I wonder if the system decided to swap things around while we added more groups, etc?

Weird.

 

[GmK]

uh, this is due to an oversight in the forum software. Telling the software usergroup cannot upload avatars = no access to avatar page. Also, there is no link possibility. Just upload or gravatar. We are looking into it.

Meanwhile, we are enabling access to avatar section again, in case people want to switch over to gravatar. (the only option available right now.) Upload limit for avatars will be set at 1 byte.

Not quite true.

Telling software to *never* be able to upload avatar = no permission to see page.

Telling software to *not* be able to upload avatar = permission to see Gravatar chooser still

Doesnt make the fact, that xenforo doesnt support url-avatars any better though!

 

[san00b]

I'm sure there is an addon somewhere. Will have to look into it.

 

[Brando212]

odd, I wouldn't think avatars would cause all that much bandwidth, I guess it adds up though with everyone viewing the forums

too bad gravitar doesn't support animated avatars (though i wasn't able to get my avatar working right on here anyway)

 

[Deadl0ck]

odd, I wouldn't think avatars would cause all that much bandwidth, I guess it adds up though with everyone viewing the forums

This. 20 times 100 kb is 2megabytes a pageview, per person. on a popular thread that gets refreshed a lot, that's easy 40 megabytes.

 

[lolpierandom]

I use Gravatar, just for convenience and so I can save all my avatars for later usage

 

[JtTorso]

Did I brea- CRIMINAL SCUM!

 

[Iguana]

master race avatar debate thread is now

 

[The Phantom]

But... Chef cat...

 

[Defiant_Blob]

But... Chef cat...

Oh no!

 

[Gameprochampion]

I didn't think this would affect us...

So once they are removed, will they ever be back? Or is it a permanent decision? And the avatars added a lot of feel to the forums, and it made the forum software shine even more. (Became sort of like FaceBook and Twitter)

I'm sure there is an addon somewhere. Will have to look into it.

I hope there is.

Bye Bye Avatars I hope we see each other again,
Gameprochampion

 

[lolpierandom]

I didn't think this would affect us...

So once they are removed, will they ever be back? Or is it a permanent decision? And the avatars added a lot of feel to the forums, and it made the forum software shine even more. (Became sort of like FaceBook and Twitter)

I hope there is.

Bye Bye Avatars I hope we see each other again,
Gameprochampion

You have to host your avatar somewhere else, as in...

http://en.gravatar.com/

 

[HarmakAnna]

It seems that I will not be able to be so show-offy about my sprites anymore. Oh well.

 

[Pick Yer Poison]

Blast, I can't use my old animated avatar now? Oh well. Guess I'm running with the suave-as-fuck dog I've had set as my Gravatar.

SAN00B

MY SUAVE DOG CHALLENGES YOUR SUAVE DOG TO A SHOWDOWN AT HIGH NOON

THIS FORUM AIN'T BIG ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US

 

[joethepro123]

Aww, headshot wolf! I'll miss you!!!
It's a shame, but Blocktopia shall continue on its path of blazing glory!
Long Live Blocktopia!

 

[Defiant_Blob]

Guys, you can keep your avatars. Use Gravatar and you can keep.

 

[CloudBryan9]

Too bad this had to happen.

 

[Defiant_Blob]

Wait... what happens to @GmK 's avatar? D:

 

[Chillingworth]

sadface

 

[Friendy]

SAD /ragequit

 

[Defiant_Blob]

@Chillingworth @AngelWV You can still have any avatar you like; use Gravatar >_>

 

[Friendy]

@Chillingworth @AngelWV You can still have any avatar you like; use Gravatar >_>

Guess what.... I'm..​

LAZY
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