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Geek Culture / avatars turned themselves off :/

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bitJericho
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Posted: 26th Jan 2008 23:19 Edited at: 26th Jan 2008 23:20
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I was browsing the forums and realized no avatars were displaying. I checked my profile options and saw it was turned off. I turned it back on and all is well.

What's weird is that I haven't been in my profile thing for a while. Did this happen to anyone else?


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Tom J
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Posted: 26th Jan 2008 23:22
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Nope

Although it doesn't sound like a major problem, so I wouldn't worry about it.
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Benjamin
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Posted: 26th Jan 2008 23:26
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Yeah, it sounds like something minor like database corruption to me.

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tha_rami
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 00:15
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I think a random anomality in the time-space continuum accidently changed something in your brains and temporarily put you in an avatar-less universe.


A mod has been erased by your signature because it was larger than 600x120
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BiggAdd
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 00:24 Edited at: 27th Jan 2008 00:24
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Or it is Lee smearing peanut butter on the servers again. How many times must he be told

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Keo C
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 00:47
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Quote: "Or it is Lee smearing peanut butter on the servers again. How many times must he be told "

You mean you shouldn't do that?
*Starts scraping peanut butter off webserver.*


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LD52
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 02:41
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Lol um yea that happened to me ... um i just assumed everyone deleted their avatar ? so for a month i went on like that until i saw someone comment on someone's avatars so i checked my profile and put them on. I didn't even know this forum had that option.
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bitJericho
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 02:43
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Hmm, something's wrong. Glad that's one bug *I* don't have to find!


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Dr Manette
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 03:10
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Quote: "Glad that's one bug *I* don't have to find!"


Haha... you know you're a programmer when...

I dunno know about you guys, but peanut butter server sandwiches are the best.


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Kohaku
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 03:24
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Speaking of avatars, they are rather tiny aren't they?

100x100 ftw!


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Osiris
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 04:11
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They are tiny for a reason. So the page loads faster.

RIP Max-Tuesday, November 2 2007
You will be dearly missed.
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Kohaku
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 04:17
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Then what of those who have images in their signatures? (awesome) Jerico2day's (equally awesome) signature alone could probably hold all of our avatars.

If that was really the reason then I bet we wouldn't be allowed to use images in our sigs.


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Osiris
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 04:41
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well they also have a max size on those too.

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Venge
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 04:43
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There is a limit on signature image size, too. Jerico just chooses not to follow it.

Modelled and rendered in Blender. Free software ftw.
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 04:44
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And what about animated avatars? It might be an idea to limit the size in kb and extend the limit in size in pixels.


Oh and the avatar thing...hehe APRIL FOOLS! I gotcha didn't I, oh you devil you, I just used my uber awesome-o magical elf powers to change your post settings!

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Bizar Guy
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 05:16
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I like the size, as it makes the forum feel rather professional for some reason. The whole layout feels clean and easy to use. Personally, This is the best looking and easy to use forum I've ever been on. Also, I recognise people mostly by their avatars, which are so easy to recognize because they have so little detail to remember. If the avatars were bigger, the page would feel more cluttered, and I wouldn't be able to just read the post and not the name of as many people if I had to remember bigger avatars.

I can't imagine anyone actually not liking the layout here. It's amazing, I'd say.


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Matt Rock
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 05:50
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Quote: "Glad that's one bug *I* don't have to find!"

Every time you say something like that, I'm going to think it's directed at me lol, you're one of the only TGC people to ever see my source code, and I'm a terrible programmer, so naturally I worry .

I love eating peanut butter by the spoonful... I'll have to try eating it by the serverful now . Yummy.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 06:08 Edited at: 27th Jan 2008 06:09
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I think ur account got h4x3d! Kall teh FBIz!!! Itz teh onlay explunationz for dat happenzing!

On the more serious side of things... Peanut butter & jelly + ( pancakes or cookies or both ) sandwiches = Kamazing!

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bitJericho
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 06:45
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Quote: "There is a limit on signature image size, too. Jerico just chooses not to follow it."


60k is too much? I thought the limit was 150k or something. My sig's tiny compared to some...

As for being haxxored, the thought crossed my mind, but then I came back to reality and realized some newb would have posted slanderous things if that were the case.


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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 12:20 Edited at: 27th Jan 2008 14:04
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Quote: "60k is too much? I thought the limit was 150k or something. My sig's tiny compared to some..."


He meant dimensions.

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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 12:32
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500*150>600*120.
True.


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bitJericho
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 16:48
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Pff, the mods always say different numbers. I chose 150 as that was listed in some post somewhere.


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Kohaku
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 18:12
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My point is that the signature size limit itself is way over the limit of the avatar size.

Anywho, I guess some people just like things small, whilst I do not.


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CoffeeGrunt
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Posted: 27th Jan 2008 19:40
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Ugghhh.....

You guys are disgusting! Peanut butter?

urrrrhhh.......*barf*

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 28th Jan 2008 00:56
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I had a peanut butter milkshake yesterday at a Swensons Drive-In. Dang, that was an awesome shake... Almost bought another.

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AaronG
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Posted: 28th Jan 2008 01:51
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@ Kohaku

You don't like things small? That's why your sig must be the largest on on these forums, no?

-AaronG


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Jeku
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Posted: 28th Jan 2008 02:22
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Jerico2day - The limit has been 600x120 for a few years, and none of the mods said anything different that I am aware of.


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Dave J
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Posted: 28th Jan 2008 07:59
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Yeah, it's always been 600x120, we were originally going to make it 600x100 but my signature was too tall, so we had to change it to 120.


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BiggAdd
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Posted: 28th Jan 2008 18:13 Edited at: 28th Jan 2008 18:14
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Quote: "Yeah, it's always been 600x120"


Its a good job too, you would have to withstand "BiggAdd" cast over a glorious 1024x768px on my posts.
Well no, smaller is better. I've even compacted my signature by using Japanese:

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Benjamin
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Posted: 28th Jan 2008 18:15
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Quote: "Its a good job too, you would have to withstand "BiggAdd" smeared over a glorious 1024x768px on my posts. "

On some forums I've seen signature images as big as 800x600.

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BiggAdd
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Ouch! Now that would be horrible.

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Benjamin
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Posted: 28th Jan 2008 21:09
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It is, specially when it's just a huge red square with some text in the middle.

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Jeku
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Posted: 28th Jan 2008 21:31
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And please note that I am a bit anal about the sig sizes. If your sig is 300x150 I'd still want you to shrink it.

Also, if you have an image that's 600x120 and you have a bunch of text underneath it, that would raise it and I'd want you to remove the text or shrink the image. It's better to be super tough on this and not play favourites.


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Dr Manette
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Posted: 28th Jan 2008 21:38
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Quote: "And please note that I am a bit anal about the sig sizes."


Am I the only one who thinks Jeku's avatar fits him better than the old one.


I really need to find an avatar that's permanent... I'm not sure if I want zoidy forever.


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bitJericho
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Fixed, sorry I took so long to get around to it


Hurray for teh logd!
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Quote: "I'm not sure if I want zoidy forever."


Well you can never go wrong with Bender.
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