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Keith Lawrence
27-10-2005, 00:09
[Thanks to Steve/Dave]

They're enabled in the config, I'm OK as an admin, but there seems to be a bug with vB3.5.0 as regards avatars for general users. I'm sure I've seen something on the vB help forums but I don't have time to investigate right now (anubody?) - it's "on the list" and we'll post here when it's sorted.
Nigel Hewitt
27-10-2005, 00:20
sulk sulk sulk
Keith Lawrence
27-10-2005, 00:26
Feel free to plough through http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/bugs35.php and Google to see if you can work out what the problem is :) We'll fix it - when we locate the circular tuit...

K
Member
27-10-2005, 00:37
Ah ha! Think I stumbled into it when looking for something else...

It was a problem with the permissions of the default user group, you could use them but not upload them. Hopefully sorted now.

Keith L
Steve Pearson
27-10-2005, 01:02
Keith

My normal avatar won't work, it says you're restricted to 19 kb, mine is 39kb as it's animated yet it works ok on YD forum

Steve
Andy Wade
27-10-2005, 01:02
Just seeing if my custom avatar shows up.
Yup. it did.
Andy.
Keith Lawrence
27-10-2005, 01:08
I think I'll "hold" on that one Steve if you don't mind. We do have to think of our dial-up users, one problem with these type of forums is the eye-candy bandwidth - half a dozen users on a page, each using 40KB avatars is a shed load of bandwidth and far exceeds the page content. My avatars are about 5KB each, i.e. a 40KB animated avatar takes up the space/bandwidth of eight normal ones.

See what others think on this, for now I'll leave it at the 19KB vB default.

Thanks for the comment.

Keith L
Ron Evans
27-10-2005, 02:07
Ok guys, I'm stupid.... tell me what an avatar is, and can I get one from the Dive Show this weekend?
Nigel Hewitt
27-10-2005, 08:10
weeeeeee........
Tristan Green
27-10-2005, 09:01
Ok guys, I'm stupid.... tell me what an avatar is, and can I get one from the Dive Show this weekend?

hint:

Nigel's showing his a yellow helmet in his avatar.

You'll get the hang of the jargon soon - there's alot more to this newfangled-interwebbythingy than we appear to have words for.

Cheers,
Tristan
Steve Pearson
29-10-2005, 10:57
Hi Keith

Avatar now sorted thanks to MattS who's obviously a bit of a computer wizard.

19kb is ok now that I don't feel naked anymore

Steve
Adrian Kelland
29-10-2005, 11:01
Looks like you've been red blobbed to death as a result! :D :D
Steve Pearson
29-10-2005, 11:11
I know

Matt decided to play and somehow gave me a red reputation

He gave himself loads of greenies as well
MattS
30-10-2005, 12:38
Matt decided to play and somehow gave me a red reputationI thought it complemented Spidey's outfit :D