IS the Account Picture Updater Not Working?

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#1 echoedpulse23
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I have been trying to change my profile picture for the past few days and when I go to my account setting and the image tab, the box on the left is just blue (doesn't display any pictures). I upload the picture that I want for the profile picture and nothing changes!!! and yes they do follow the 80x80 under 20kb constraints. Is there some working being done to the site that has this part temporarily down, or could be something with my java? Let me know if more information is needed!!

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Print Screen.... Thought it might help... Also bored... TOok me forever to resize to get it under the max characters ha and the html doesn't seem to want to work so here is a link!

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You can achieve instant changes of avatars and signatures if you host them at either Photobucket or Imageshack. The servers accept URLs a lot faster than images uploaded from your drive.
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#4 echoedpulse23
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thanks thats helpfull!! Haha the sad thing is, I did something like that to try and get a printscreen of the problem. Iwas going to use an IMG address from a hosted site to show you the print screen of hte problem when I guess that would have been the better solution!

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Something "extra" has been awry with profile images for at least a few days, probably since sometime just before E3. Changes to profile images are famously slow to take effect, but lately have been running even longer than usual. The other big clue is that the URL fields on the Settings/Images tab are blank even for users that currently have working profile images - that's definitely something new. The avatar I see for you at the moment (red lettering along bottom) seems to be about a month old. If it has already been a day since your last upload attempt, it probably won't help to wait another day (without attempting further uploads), but that's what I would have suggested if it had not been at least 24 hours. Someone had an uploaded avatar finally show up recently that was uploaded more than 24 hours earlier. The latency from upload to taking effect can be considerable. The third party image host option can be a quicker solution, but I always hesitate to recommend it because of bandwidth and other image host issues, and because it may be a one way trip - you may not be able to go back to hosting on GS afterward (last I checked, anyway).

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#6 topsemag55
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You're welcome. I host my avatars and sigs at one of those websites, and all you would need to do is copy the URL of a hosted image, and paste it into the "image URL" block. Your screenshot shows "Gamespot images only", you would need to change that to "all images".
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[QUOTE="gmax"]Something "extra" has been awry with profile images for at least a few days, probably since sometime just before E3. Changes to profile images are famously slow to take effect, but lately have been running even longer than usual. The other big clue is that the URL fields on the Settings/Images tab are blank even for users that currently have working profile images - that's definitely something new. The avatar I see for you at the moment (red lettering along bottom) seems to be about a month old. If it has already been a day since your last upload attempt, it probably won't help to wait another day (without attempting further uploads), but that's what I would have suggested if it had not been at least 24 hours. Someone had an uploaded avatar finally show up recently that was uploaded more than 24 hours earlier. The latency from upload to taking effect can be considerable. The third party image host option can be a quicker solution, but I always hesitate to recommend it because of bandwidth and other image host issues, and because it may be a one way trip - you may not be able to go back to hosting on GS afterward (last I checked, anyway).

You're right, bandwidth can be a problem if you post a lot of images. I had to go to a paid account which netted me unlimited bandwidth. I didn't know about the one-way trip though - thanks for the tip.