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Hey anybody, how'd certain folks keep using their avatars? I know we were told to "save" them, and I have mine all in my pc, but how do I use one in the new site?

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[+5] - Butrflynet - 08/14/2008The image quality isn't as good as the original one because I had it as part of one of those annoying animated gifs that everyone hated to love during the reunion. Anyway, here's your old self...
[+5] - Robert Gentel - 08/27/2008Try changing the avatar size in your preferences, that might force a refresh for you.
[+4] - Craven de Kere - 08/14/2008Anyone can have an avatar here. All bans and previous restrictions were lifted with the new site.
[+4] - littlek - 08/14/2008You can stretch out the crop box to fit a square portion of your image as large as the smallest dimension (height or width).
[+3] - Foxfyre - 08/27/2008I'm having the same problem. Some tell me they see an owl face as my avatar when I post and that is what I see in my profile. I see a modernistic fox avatar on my posts. I've deleted all other...
[+3] - Craven de Kere - 08/14/2008We are using gravatar, which is a service for avatars anywhere on the net that supports them. So to display it here upload it at: http://en.gravatar.com/ Just use the same email address as you...
[+3] - Intrepid - 08/14/2008Thanks for the information. Gonna take some getting used to, but the site does look nice.
[+3] - Butrflynet - 08/14/2008Gus, I have your old avatar saved on my PC from when we did the Ratzenhoffer family reunion. Let me dig around and locate it and I'll post it here in this thread for you to download so you can...
[+3] - wandeljw - 08/14/2008Dev, Craven gave this information: Re: snood(Post 3356973) We are using gravatar, which is a service for avatars anywhere on the net that supports them. So to display it here upload it at:...
[+3] - devriesj - 08/14/2008Thanks, wandel. Got that far. Just trying to find the old avi back!

@snood,

We are using gravatar, which is a service for avatars anywhere on the net that supports them. So to display it here upload it at: http://en.gravatar.com/

Just use the same email address as you use on able2know. We'll have more instruction on this from the profile page soon.

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@Craven de Kere,

Thanks for the information. Gonna take some getting used to, but the site does look nice.

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@Craven de Kere,

I loaded it at gravatar...whad'ya do next?

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@snood,

Wait. It sometimes takes up to an hour or so to show up.

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@snood,

Sooo.....................I uploaded my avatar to gravatar. So far so good. But then it stretched the picture out, so that it was all pixillated. When it showed how to crop the image, it included only a piece of the picture, and it came out like something that you might find in the Museum of Modern Art. Interesting, but I would be "lost" without my original avatar.

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OK, just a personal gripe here: the avatars are really tiny. I suppose we'll have to reevaluate our avatar choices in light of this new fact -- find ones that have less detail and so forth -- but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

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@snood,

testing to see if my avatar will travel from my profile page to a post ...

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@ehBeth,

hmmm not so much. I can see it in my profile but not next to a post. pfft.

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@Phoenix32890,

Phoenix, I'm having the same problem. Pretty pixels, but no recognizable image.

And I'm about out of time for playing with it - back later.

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@Phoenix32890,

You can stretch out the crop box to fit a square portion of your image as large as the smallest dimension (height or width).

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@littlek,

Mine took quite a while to show up.

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@littlek,

Thanks littlek, I just came back to say I figured that out!

I thought I had to take what was in the little box - didn't realize I could stretch it out.

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@sozobe,

So, the gravatar site send the image here after you load and crop it there?

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Aha! Here I am. It only took about 5 minutes.

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@littlek,

littlek- Thanks! Now let's see if I did the whole shootin' match correctly!

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@Phoenix32890,

I can see Phoe's avatar on her profile page, but not next to her posts. I can see Nick (developer)'s avatar next to his posts but not on his profile page. I can see Soz's avatar next to her posts and on her profile page.

Seems a bit hit and miss right now.

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@littlek,

Yeah -- you do the work there, and then it eventually shows up here.

"Eventually" seems to vary a great deal.

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worked pretty quick for me

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@ehBeth,

Strange- I can't see the avatar on my profile, or next to my posts! Sad

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