Avatar Error message?

[Goddess FallenAngel]

The URL for the original artwork is the link in the first post.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

The URL for the original artwork is the link in the first post.

No, that’s something that has already been shrunk… Let me guess you didn’t make the above avatar your trying to use, huh? (Any chance you have the artist's name?)

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

Nope, didn't make it. Someone sent it to me - they didn't remember where they got it, either.

 

[Michael Morris]

I'd love to know how Micheal Morris can have a different pic for every post he makes.... .

I hacked the code of course

BTW, it's not different for each post - it's different for each display so if you refresh a screen with my posts you'll get different avatars. There are 127 of them in all, and there should be more once Ravnica is released

Stock avatars (ones inputted in the system and selectable) are often larger than 64x64. Admins can have avatars of any size -- Mine are 100x100. The most likely reason a remote avatar isn't working is that the remote server is blocking remote image linking (which is a fairly common practice).

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

Well, I pay for my webspace, and I'm supposed to be able to remote link (supposed to).

That, and I use the avatar on another board (not related to my webpace), same link as above, and it works there.

I give up.....

 

[reveal]

Well, I pay for my webspace, and I'm supposed to be able to remote link (supposed to).

That, and I use the avatar on another board (not related to my webpace), same link as above, and it works there.

I give up.....

I think I found the problem. It's A) over the 64x64 pixel limit and B) 13Kb in size, which is over the 4.9Kb limit here. Either way, it's oversized.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

I had assumed that, being linked to another website, and not on ENworld's servers, the KB limit wouldn't matter.

 

[reveal]

I had assumed that, being linked to another website, and not on ENworld's servers, the KB limit wouldn't matter.

It's not a link though. It actually uploads it to the EN World server. Otherwise, there would probably be a ton of broken avatar images as links change frequently.

 

[Bront]

No, it does, because Enworld uploads it from the link.

Otherwise, as I've seen as a different site admin, people link and shrink 5 meg animated gifs to their avatars and it slows everything down.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

Ah! Now, I wish someone had explained that before, it makes a lot of sense!

I was continually running off the assumption that it just linked to it, as the other messageboards I am on just use a link, rather that use disk space. Thanks!

But then, why do we have an "Upload Avatar" section and a "Link to Avatar" section, if they do the same thing? (i.e., upload the avatar to ENworld servers?)