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freebrickproductions

June 01, 2025, 09:07:26 PM  
Is there not a way to upload our own personal avatars to the forum anymore? I was planning on changing mine (I currently have the AL flag as temporary since it was one of the "gallery" options), though changing something else on my profile settings caused my previous avatar to disappear, and I can't see a way to select a file of my own to upload.
It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

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LilianaUwU

#1
June 01, 2025, 09:14:23 PM  
Quote from: freebrickproductions on June 01, 2025, 09:07:26 PMIs there not a way to upload our own personal avatars to the forum anymore? I was planning on changing mine (I currently have the AL flag as temporary since it was one of the "gallery" options), though changing something else on my profile settings caused my previous avatar to disappear, and I can't see a way to select a file of my own to upload.

I've worked around it by going to Wikipedia and grabbing what I wanted. (Speaking of which, pride flags in the gallery options when?)
"Volcano with no fire... Not volcano... Just mountain."
—Mr. Thwomp

My pronouns are she/her. Also, I'm an admin on the AARoads Wiki.

freebrickproductions

#2
June 01, 2025, 09:18:35 PM  
Quote from: LilianaUwU on June 01, 2025, 09:14:23 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on June 01, 2025, 09:07:26 PMIs there not a way to upload our own personal avatars to the forum anymore? I was planning on changing mine (I currently have the AL flag as temporary since it was one of the "gallery" options), though changing something else on my profile settings caused my previous avatar to disappear, and I can't see a way to select a file of my own to upload.

I've worked around it by going to Wikipedia and grabbing what I wanted. (Speaking of which, pride flags in the gallery options when?)

That might work in some cases, but I was planning on using one of the pieces of pride art of my pony OC for my avatar, admittedly.

Pride flags in the gallery options would be great though. :nod:
It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

Art in avatar by Moncatto (18+)!

(They/Them)

LilianaUwU

#3
June 01, 2025, 09:19:54 PM  
Quote from: freebrickproductions on June 01, 2025, 09:18:35 PM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on June 01, 2025, 09:14:23 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on June 01, 2025, 09:07:26 PMIs there not a way to upload our own personal avatars to the forum anymore? I was planning on changing mine (I currently have the AL flag as temporary since it was one of the "gallery" options), though changing something else on my profile settings caused my previous avatar to disappear, and I can't see a way to select a file of my own to upload.

I've worked around it by going to Wikipedia and grabbing what I wanted. (Speaking of which, pride flags in the gallery options when?)

That might work in some cases, but I was planning on using one of the pieces of pride art of my pony OC for my avatar, admittedly.

Pride flags in the gallery options would be great though. :nod:
Oh, you're Huntsville Railfan? I should've caught on.
"Volcano with no fire... Not volcano... Just mountain."
—Mr. Thwomp

My pronouns are she/her. Also, I'm an admin on the AARoads Wiki.

freebrickproductions

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June 01, 2025, 09:21:37 PM  
Quote from: LilianaUwU on June 01, 2025, 09:19:54 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on June 01, 2025, 09:18:35 PM
Quote from: LilianaUwU on June 01, 2025, 09:14:23 PM
Quote from: freebrickproductions on June 01, 2025, 09:07:26 PMIs there not a way to upload our own personal avatars to the forum anymore? I was planning on changing mine (I currently have the AL flag as temporary since it was one of the "gallery" options), though changing something else on my profile settings caused my previous avatar to disappear, and I can't see a way to select a file of my own to upload.

I've worked around it by going to Wikipedia and grabbing what I wanted. (Speaking of which, pride flags in the gallery options when?)

That might work in some cases, but I was planning on using one of the pieces of pride art of my pony OC for my avatar, admittedly.

Pride flags in the gallery options would be great though. :nod:
Oh, you're Huntsville Railfan? I should've caught on.

Yeah, lmao.
It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

Art in avatar by Moncatto (18+)!

(They/Them)

Molandfreak

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June 01, 2025, 09:55:03 PM  
Upload to imgur, then right click on the image and grab its url. Make sure it's 80px or below.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on December 05, 2023, 08:24:57 PMAASHTO attributes 28.5% of highway inventory shrink to bad road fan social media posts.

Scott5114

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June 01, 2025, 11:55:20 PM  
Quote from: LilianaUwU on June 01, 2025, 09:14:23 PMSpeaking of which, pride flags in the gallery options when?

Quote from: freebrickproductions on June 01, 2025, 09:18:35 PMPride flags in the gallery options would be great though.

It's a good idea, but I think it'll have to wait until after the server problems stabilize a bit—I wouldn't want to have them disappear because of some sort of upgrade or something and make it look like we were pulling a Target on y'all.

I went for a more subtle approach with mine...

The Alabama flag as an avatar kinda looks like it's a broken image or something we'd set a banned user's avatar to. :D
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freebrickproductions

#7
June 03, 2025, 03:39:53 PM   Last Edit: June 03, 2025, 04:15:05 PM by freebrickproductions
Quote from: Molandfreak on June 01, 2025, 09:55:03 PMUpload to imgur, then right click on the image and grab its url. Make sure it's 80px or below.

Doing that keeps giving me this error, even when I made the image 61p x 70p:
Quote from: Forum Error MessageThe following errors occurred when trying to save your profile:
The image you are trying to use surpasses the max width/height settings, please use a smaller one.

I can only assume the file size is too big, or the forum doesn't like .png files for avatars.
EDIT: Testing with the 61p x 70p version converted to .jpg still doesn't work. :banghead:
EDIT 2: Putting it down all the way to 44p x 50p works, so I guess it was just file size. I'll investigate further later tonight.
EDIT 3: Or maybe the forum doesn't like avatars above 60p in height now? :banghead:
EDIT 4: 65p works, hmm...
EDIT 5: Yeah, a 65x65p square seems to be the upper limit currently?
It's all fun & games until someone summons Cthulhu and brings about the end of the world.

I also collect traffic lights, road signs, fans, and railroad crossing equipment.

Art in avatar by Moncatto (18+)!

(They/Them)

gonealookin

#8
June 03, 2025, 06:48:30 PM  
Quote from: freebrickproductions on June 03, 2025, 03:39:53 PMEDIT 5: Yeah, a 65x65p square seems to be the upper limit currently?

Aha, thank you for figuring that out.

I shrunk the photo to 65x65, then uploaded to Imgur.

<-- Looks like it displays here at 80x80 though.

TheCatalyst31

#9
June 03, 2025, 10:32:22 PM  
Quote from: Scott5114 on June 01, 2025, 11:55:20 PMI went for a more subtle approach with mine...


You gave me an idea. It helps that my home state uses a rainbow on one of its standard signs.

oscar

#10
July 06, 2025, 11:38:53 AM  
I'd like to restore the avatar I've had for a long time. It was a route marker I photographed (heavy edits to comply with this forum's avatar guidelines), which I uploaded to the AARoads server.

If you'd prefer something hosted on a third-party server, I now have a Flickr account.
my Hot Springs and Highways pages, with links to my roads sites:
http://www.alaskaroads.com/home.html

Scott5114

#11
July 06, 2025, 08:17:56 PM  
@Alex do you still have oscar's avatar on the server somewhere?
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Bruce

#12
July 06, 2025, 08:23:36 PM  
Quote from: oscar on July 06, 2025, 11:38:53 AMI'd like to restore the avatar I've had for a long time. It was a route marker I photographed (heavy edits to comply with this forum's avatar guidelines), which I uploaded to the AARoads server.

If you'd prefer something hosted on a third-party server, I now have a Flickr account.

You could copy the avatar from the Wayback Machine into Imgur and use that URL.
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LilianaUwU

#13
July 06, 2025, 10:28:43 PM  
I was gonna change back after Pride Month, but 65x65 is a very small size, and even the reduced size crop of my profile pic accounts for the old 80x80 limit.
"Volcano with no fire... Not volcano... Just mountain."
—Mr. Thwomp

My pronouns are she/her. Also, I'm an admin on the AARoads Wiki.

JayhawkCO

#14
July 06, 2025, 11:16:55 PM  
Quote from: oscar on July 06, 2025, 11:38:53 AMI'd like to restore the avatar I've had for a long time. It was a route marker I photographed (heavy edits to comply with this forum's avatar guidelines), which I uploaded to the AARoads server.

If you'd prefer something hosted on a third-party server, I now have a Flickr account.

Oscar, see if this works:

https://i.postimg.cc/qBcTMWjL/avatar-1107-1348108042.jpg

oscar

#15
July 06, 2025, 11:34:26 PM  
That, and the same image hosted on my www.alaskaroads.com server, exceeds the forum's size limits for avatars not hosted on the aaroads server. If Alex can't find my old avatar on the aaroads server, then I'll have to shrink the avatar on my server from 80x80 to 65x65.
my Hot Springs and Highways pages, with links to my roads sites:
http://www.alaskaroads.com/home.html

JayhawkCO

#16
July 07, 2025, 12:18:53 PM  
Quote from: oscar on July 06, 2025, 11:34:26 PMThat, and the same image hosted on my www.alaskaroads.com server, exceeds the forum's size limits for avatars not hosted on the aaroads server. If Alex can't find my old avatar on the aaroads server, then I'll have to shrink the avatar on my server from 80x80 to 65x65.

I had just downloaded the pic from your profile from the waybackmachine and then hosted it on postimages.org.
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