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Old February 11, 2003, 07:03   #1
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AVATARS: internal system changed
As part of our load reducing measures, we've changed our avatar system so that custom avatars are stored directly on the server and not in the database

On the user end this should not have any kind of difference in terms of using the custom avatar feature. The only difference will hopefully be in the page generation speed.

If you experience any problems, please report them here
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Old February 11, 2003, 18:42   #2
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Thanks Markos. One benefit is that my avatar now shows correctly when I'm on the forums from work. For unknown reasons I would always get the "broken image" symbol for it. Now it works just fine.
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Old February 11, 2003, 20:09   #3
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All seems fine so far.
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Old February 12, 2003, 08:22   #4
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If I don't have any problems, where should I then report to?

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Old February 12, 2003, 14:47   #5
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Does this mean our avatars will not disappear when it is busy?
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Old February 12, 2003, 18:30   #6
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They still disappear when it is busy (at least, they did for me yesterday just before I was posting in this thread).
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Old February 13, 2003, 05:19   #7
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Hey Skanky, your avatar looks messed up.
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Old February 13, 2003, 07:32   #8
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Looks normal to me.
What style are you using?
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Old February 13, 2003, 07:34   #9
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Old February 13, 2003, 11:39   #10
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If he uses Opera 7(as me), he might have problems getting the animation to work. I just see a slow motion of every animated page on Apolyton for some odd reason?
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Old February 13, 2003, 11:46   #11
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I use Opera 6.01.......there are sometimes problems with 'Poly and Opera (though this has not been true recently) but I have never had trouble with avatars.
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If he uses Opera 7(as me), he might have problems getting the animation to work. I just see a slow motion of every animated page on Apolyton for some odd reason?
I've also found that Opera7 sometimes has problems displaying animated images.
Right clicking on the image and telling it to reload always fixes the problem, but it's still annoying.
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Old February 13, 2003, 14:31   #13
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I've reduced loading times by choosing not to view avatars.
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Old February 13, 2003, 15:50   #14
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hi ,

, well Mark , the avatars stay now , even when a lot of people are here

Mark you are just full of ideas to constantly improve things

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spiffy, some day i'll get a custom avatar :P
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Old February 14, 2003, 06:01   #17
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, well Mark , the avatars stay now , even when a lot of people are here
yes, it seems to have worked

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Mark you are just full of ideas to constantly improve things
working on something new in the load-reduction front at this moment
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Old February 14, 2003, 09:04   #18
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yes, it seems to have worked
Well done if it has.......I asked above about whether the avatars would stay now and I was lead to believe otherwise.

Spoiler:
It was Skanky's fault
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the avatars may stay with more people cause the general load on the server has been reduced. the settings though to de-activate avatars on high load have stayed
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Old February 14, 2003, 09:28   #20
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Ah I see. I did notice yesterday the avatars were more resilient, but they still could go at peak times.

Sorry Skanky.
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Blame Skanky! Don't apologize!

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hi ,

Markos ; what happend to the idea about those avatars based on people's hitpoints , .....

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Ah I see. I did notice yesterday the avatars were more resilient, but they still could go at peak times.

Sorry Skanky.


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Old February 15, 2003, 01:03   #24
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Let's see......

Seems ok.
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I blame Skanky for Spike's error of judgement (you just can't win )
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Yeah well he was pretty unclear.

/me is happy to shift fault on to a natural scapegoat.
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Old February 16, 2003, 02:25   #27
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In the FAQ it says that custom avatars are allowed after 500 posts yet i've seen people with less than that get one. Why is it???
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When avatars were originally introduced, the rule was 500 posts or 1 year of being here. People who were here 1 year but didn't have many posts could get a custom avatar. When the rule was changed, they kept their custom avatar but couldn't switch to a different custom one.
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Also, some people got to 500 posts and changed to a custom avatar. They then did something naughty enough to warrent a PCR (post count reduction) and hence had less than 500 posts whilst still retaining their custom avatar.
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Both those reasons sound right, but I haven't seen anyone with a custom avatar and less than 500 posts anyway.
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