I have been having some weird problems with avatars. Sorry if this message seems to ramble, but I want to make sure I put out the proper information.
When I first joined here, a couple of months ago, I was having trouble getting the avatar function to work. I just couldn't get a picture to display at all - some kind of errors kept creeping in. I finally did get one to work, the picture that used to be displayed until about a week ago. But then I found a new one, the one that I have now, that I liked better, but when I tried to put it into my profile, it was all fuzzy and spotty - as if the software that was supposed to shrink the size wasn't working properly. So I decided to abandon avatars completely, and turned it off. But then, somehow, the older picture reappeared as my avatar. Kind of spooky, but I decided to let it be.
Then a week or two ago, there was a discussion about other people have problems with avatars. In the meantime, I bought a laptop: a Macintosh powerbook G4. The platform is OS X 10.2, and my browser is Mozilla 1.4.1. Anyway, it sounded like the avatar problem was being looked into, so I tried to upload the picture that I actually like, and lo and behold, it works.
Now, however, NosyNed's avatar won't display at all (clicking on it brings up an error message - says there's an error in it), and MrHambre's won't either. But when I log onto here from one of the other computers available to me (not my laptop), these avatars display alright, but now mine displays all fuzzy and spotty again. The other machines are various operating systems (Windows, Linux) and various browsers (Explorer, Mozilla, Firebird).
Actually, to me this is a minor problem, and I can live with it, but the powers that be may find this information useful. Also: is anyone else only seeing a very spotty version of my avatar? Does the quality bug you? Would it be better to just shut if off?
Thanks.