What happened to my avatar?

[Travler]

My animated compass is gone. All I get is the cursed red x. (Its not even the faster GREEN x.)

[biker]

Unreasnbl is correct.

Since the compass is still available at http://www.gifs.net/animate/compass.gif, they must have turned off linking. So now you can't link to it from here.

You can either host the compass at your own site - or one that supports hosting. There's a recent thread here about that, use the search function. The word host or hosting should turn it up.

Or upload the avatar here.

[ginoe]

www.imageshack.us

though its got a image size limitation of 850kb

[Travler]

The compass is WAY too big. 55.6kb. That sucks.

[biker]

Shrinking it to fit here made it pretty ugly too....

I'd use another hosting service. Like the one ginoe posted.

OR many people get a bit of free webspace with their ISP account. For example, I have 20 Megs with my account. So you might want to check into that and host it there.

[Travler]

I tried hosting it at imageshack, but after applying the link, this board still said it was too big.

:confused: Any ideas why?

http://img66.exs.cx/img66/6457/compass.gif

[Travler]

Well, since no one seems to know the answer to my earlier question, I have tried a new avatar. But, as you can see, even though I was successful in adding the new one, the red X won't go away.

Does anyone have any ideas about THIS problem?

[biker]

Ok, now I can help... a little bit.

The reason your old avatar worked is because someone (an admin) kindly gave you that avatar. It was probably done when you made a donation to cause some years back.

So that original avatar is handled differently than the new ones.

Unfortunately, that's all the help I can provide. We need to get an admin involved to fix the red x issue (mods don't have the correct privileges). I will contact chuckc and see if he can fix it. If it's not taken care of in the next day or two, ping chuckc.

[chuckc]

:bow:

[chuckc]

Too late. While you were in here messin' I was elsewhere messin. :uptosum:

[Travler]

Hey! Its back!

Thanks a lot biker and chuck!

And biker, you were correct: Lloyd gave me the compass a looooooonnnnng time ago. (At least I assumed it was Lloyd...?)

:thumbs: :beer: