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For some reason, peoples avatars are not consistantly loading. Sometimes they are replaced by what looks like the pipe character. Strangely, in a single page, a person's avatar will be a pipe for one post and the full image for another post on the same page.

Anyone else experiencing this?

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Re: Avatars not always loading?

Couldn't help myself and do a little bit of investigation...

If I look a Newbie needs serious Help!!, Andy Clough's avatar is a pipe.

If I look at the html, the url of his avatar is...

/users/avatar.aspx?userid=2136&lastmodified=633169092896187215

Not sure why he so many ampersands (looks like a error in the code to me). Anyway, If I stick the the above url into the address bar, prefixed by http://community.whathifi.com/forums (the address of the forum), I can see his avatar.

Not entirely sure why I can't see his avatar in the page (even after a refresh).....but the img url is correct.

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Re: Avatars not always loading?
PJPro:


Anyone else experiencing this?

Yeah been getting the same thing,have also noticed that some images that have been posted on some threads aren't loading either...
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Re: Avatars not always loading?

That's interesting...... your avatar is not visible to me on the previous post. Can you see it?

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Re: Avatars not always loading?

Where's that techy fella when you need him?

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Re: Avatars not always loading?
PJPro:
That's interesting...... your avatar is not visible to me on the previous post. Can you see it?

Yeah,can see my avatar ok.
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Re: Avatars not always loading?

That's disappointing. Would have made the issue easier to find if we were all seeing the problem with the same image instances.

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Re: Avatars not always loading?
PJPro:
That's disappointing. Would have made the issue easier to find if we were all seeing the problem with the same image instances.

  Well Andy Clough's is one of the ones that hasn't been loading for me either,so maybe your onto something.
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Re: Avatars not always loading?

The only time i get avatars not loading is when the page doesn't load properly i just refresh the page & everything is fine.

Other than that i have no problems with avatars.

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Re: Avatars not always loading?

Well I've returned to this page several times to read the posts and I still can't see daveh75's avatar for his first posting on this thread......however, I can see it for the later posts.

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Re: Avatars not always loading?

Actually slewis, I can't see your avatar on the post above.

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Re: Avatars not always loading?

Where's JD when you need him, he maybe able to explain the mystery of the missing avatar.

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Re: Avatars not always loading?

Oh, I can see your avatar on your last post.....but still can't see it on the previous one.

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Re: Avatars not always loading?
slewis:
Where's JD when you need him, he maybe able to explain the mystery of the missing avatar.



He's here, but he can see all the avatars...
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Re: Avatars not always loading?


In fact, he can see avatars...all...the...time.

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Re: Avatars not always loading?

As indeed can I. Including my own. And I'm not a pipe.

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