Avatar not updating - anyone else run into this?

December 26, 2011 5:29pm CST
Just been trying to change my avatar and despite repeated attempts, I am still a pale white silhouette on a green background... I've tried both Chrome and Firefox, with a 100x100 image and a 60x60 image - nope, no luck. It deleted the old one quite happily but I can't get a new one to stick. Any ideas?
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
27 Dec 11
Spike, I would have expected you to have been one of the first to know and understand that the 'image' part of the server has been down for some days (at least since Christmas Eve). The answer is, of course, "Be patient - MyLot Staff deserve their holiday as much as (if not more than) we do." I'm certain that, actually, you will join me in wishing all those unnamed but very personable people, who work in the big black building in the suburbs of Kansas City, a VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR. Running a site like MyLot is hard work ... don't anyone believe that it's not! I'd actually love to hear what the sound of nearly half a million hands clapping for MyLot sounds like!
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27 Dec 11
Very much like this: I'll just have to assume you heard me clapping, there.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
27 Dec 11
That's a quarter hog!
@peavey (16936)
• United States
26 Dec 11
MyLot seems to be having problems with images today, so maybe that's the problem? None of the images in "interests" has loaded for me today. They must be on a different server, because nothing else seems to be affected. Maybe if you wait another day, they'll have it fixed.
26 Dec 11
Oh noes... I'll be pale and pasty for another day? I thought the image thing was just my connection being daft: that would probably explain it. It seems to try to up to images.mylot.com so yes, if that server's having trouble... Ah well, at least it means you don't have to look at my ugly mug for a little longer!
@peavey (16936)
• United States
27 Dec 11
Can't wait to see your new avatar, although I liked the old one well enough.
@CTHanum (8234)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 11
Agree with peavey. Can't even see images loaded in here today.
@MaryLynn321 (2680)
• United States
27 Dec 11
I found a graphic I wanted to use and saved it to my documents on my computer. Then when I went in to find a graphic for mylot, I just browsed my document files for the one I wanted to use and downloaded it to mylot. It worked great. Give it a try.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
27 Dec 11
It appears to work for some and not for others ... at least, in the last three or four days.
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• United States
27 Dec 11
Maybe their is a glitch that they are not aware of or are working on.
@thesids (22180)
• Bhubaneswar, India
27 Dec 11
Hi SpikeTheLobster Finally found a discussion from you to participate. I had a Snowman Avatar and since the past two days, it has gone missing... Not sure whether it melted or anything. And now I have the default one which I never liked But it is a glitch as I find many avatars not getting displayed and also none of the photo uploads working. Maybe the admin team is still busy with Holidays and Festive Season
27 Dec 11
I can see your snowman! (I don't start many discussions - reactive rather than proactive personality and all that. )
@inertia4 (27961)
• United States
28 Dec 11
I have noticed that yesterday. It seemed that all the avatars did not work at all. I actually had no avatar at all, not even a pale white silhouette. But it all seems to be fixed as of now.
@Olleenz (3398)
• Indonesia
27 Dec 11
Admin on holiday, Spike . Everyone had same problem
@mayka123 (16583)
• India
27 Dec 11
All images from mylot are anyway missing today. That may be the reason you are having problems with your avatar. Just give it a day or so and then try again. Do something more useful today.
@thezone (9394)
• Ireland
27 Dec 11
Avatars are knackered lol.
• United States
26 Dec 11
There is something going on with not being able to upload pictures, so that might have something to do with it Spike. I noticed a lot of people having a little box where their avatars are supposed to be. I haven’t tried to upload any pics today, but I know I couldn’t upload yesterday.
@fsuma86 (364)
• Philippines
27 Dec 11
Hi there! I'm not so sure if you will like my response but with avatar the only thing that I know is that you will just have to customize your appearance. I'm not so sure though with other sites but with Yahoo it's automatic. All the edit buttons are there. Try it! Thanks!