The server does not see a monstrosity...it sees a link from another website. We're all feeling expressively handcuffed. I know we all want everything to work as it used to, but not being able to Upload pics still beats this: As I said before, some of these hosting services are like disengaged landlords.
hum, have been trying to use avatar from email site like the owl pic , but not it will not even recognize that email avatar, and old pic
Are you talking about Gravatar? I've not tried it. When you say "will not even recognize...", exactly what happens? Do you get the "File Too Large" error, or is something else going on.
um would not take my cut down sized link pic either.., gotta go change the bed sheets... mess with it says does not see avatar for that email address
I tried the Gravatar, and it worked fine for me. I just clicked on it from the avatar box, and walked myself through the instructions, and it uploaded the picture of the christmas llama from my photos file on my ipad. I am assuming that I can go through the same thing again when I want to change it after Christmas is over. I think that it did that to me, too, @Hedi Mitchell , but it uploaded it anyway. I will look again. I went back to the Gravatar website and uploaded a different image, and it reset it for me, but it seemed confusing. I had to go back to the regular avatar and then back to use the Gravatar again, and then it changed it for me. The test button didn’t work for me, but it did upload my picture.
Gravatar is not "feature-rich." I tried signing up and it wanted to force me to link to my Wordpress account (somehow, the two businesses are affiliated.) I tried to create an account a different way and it just stayed on the Wordpress screen. It's not worth it...I'll wait.
We use Imgur, and since this site won't load pics; I put photos there, then copy and paste them here; so far that's working to load a photo, for us.
all that happened to me when I went from the scary pumpkins(@John Brunner ).. finally it took but so far nada. I will just wait until maybe first of the year I do like my variety though in being able to change
So you are saying we are at the mercy of the forum's hosting service now? If we want to have an avatar or post any pictures, we have to use a photo hosting site? It's been what, 2 months now?
Unfortunately, that seems to be what is happening, @Krystal Shay . Believe me, none of us like this ! However, the only other option was to start a totally new forum with another server company, and then every person here would have to subscribe to the new forum, and start all new conversations. We would lose all of the old threads, some of which are people’s diaries and have been going for years now. We do not want to have to do that either, so Ken has been working with the server people and trying to get them to hold up their end of the commitment . Once they get that done, then we should have back everything we have lost and no more of the resource limit stuff, or not being able to put up pictures. I did try using the Gravatar and was able to upload an avatar that way, and it is not difficult to do. (It is in the box where you add an avatar) There are directions to add a bunch of stuff if you want to, but I didn’t, so I just kept saying no to adding anything and finally put the picture on and then it added it for my avatar here. Not as nice or easy as using our own files, but it will work.
Sadly, every website is at the mercy of their hosting service, unless it's a large corporation that does it in house. It's IS frustrating...and a little infuriating. We've had extended periods of downtime and general functioning issues in the past. At least this one has a work-around, we can log on and post, and things are not excruciatingly slow.
Ok. I guess the forum hosting service considers senior forums as low priority and ignores older people like a lot of society.
I doubt that they have any idea what their smaller accounts are about, but we could do our own Life Alert shtick and see if that works. "Help!! I'm posting pictures, and I can't see $hit!!"