February 11, 2003, 07:03
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Apolyton CS Co-Founder
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AVATARS: internal system changed
As part of our load reducing measures, we've changed our avatar system so that custom avatars are stored directly on the server and not in the database
On the user end this should not have any kind of difference in terms of using the custom avatar feature. The only difference will hopefully be in the page generation speed.
If you experience any problems, please report them here
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February 11, 2003, 18:42
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Thanks Markos. One benefit is that my avatar now shows correctly when I'm on the forums from work. For unknown reasons I would always get the "broken image" symbol for it. Now it works just fine.
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February 11, 2003, 20:09
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All seems fine so far. 
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February 12, 2003, 08:22
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If I don't have any problems, where should I then report to?
 
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February 12, 2003, 14:47
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Does this mean our avatars will not disappear when it is busy?
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February 12, 2003, 18:30
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They still disappear when it is busy (at least, they did for me yesterday just before I was posting in this thread).
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February 13, 2003, 05:19
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Hey Skanky, your avatar looks messed up.
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February 13, 2003, 07:32
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Looks normal to me. 
What style are you using?
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February 13, 2003, 07:34
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Looks fine to me.
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February 13, 2003, 11:39
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If he uses Opera 7(as me), he might have problems getting the animation to work. I just see a slow motion of every animated page on Apolyton for some odd reason? 
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February 13, 2003, 11:46
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I use Opera 6.01.......there are sometimes problems with 'Poly and Opera (though this has not been true recently) but I have never had trouble with avatars.
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February 13, 2003, 14:25
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Originally posted by Nikolai
If he uses Opera 7(as me), he might have problems getting the animation to work. I just see a slow motion of every animated page on Apolyton for some odd reason?
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I've also found that Opera7 sometimes has problems displaying animated images.
Right clicking on the image and telling it to reload always fixes the problem, but it's still annoying.
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February 13, 2003, 14:31
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I've reduced loading times by choosing not to view avatars. 
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February 13, 2003, 15:50
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hi ,
, well Mark , the avatars stay now , even when a lot of people are here 
Mark you are just full of ideas to constantly improve things
have a nice day
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February 14, 2003, 05:20
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spiffy, some day i'll get a custom avatar :P
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February 14, 2003, 05:29
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Yeah, and one day I'll get that Deity title.
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February 14, 2003, 06:01
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Originally posted by panag
, well Mark , the avatars stay now , even when a lot of people are here
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yes, it seems to have worked
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Mark you are just full of ideas to constantly improve things
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working on something new in the load-reduction front at this moment 
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February 14, 2003, 09:04
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Originally posted by MarkG
yes, it seems to have worked
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Well done if it has.......I asked above about whether the avatars would stay now and I was lead to believe otherwise.
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February 14, 2003, 09:22
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the avatars may stay with more people cause the general load on the server has been reduced. the settings though to de-activate avatars on high load have stayed
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February 14, 2003, 09:28
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Ah I see. I did notice yesterday the avatars were more resilient, but they still could go at peak times.
Sorry Skanky. 
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February 14, 2003, 11:07
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No No No!
Blame Skanky! Don't apologize!
all seems to working well Mark
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February 14, 2003, 11:17
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hi ,
Markos ; what happend to the idea about those avatars based on people's hitpoints , .....
have a nice day
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February 14, 2003, 15:10
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February 15, 2003, 01:03
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Let's see......
Seems ok.
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February 15, 2003, 02:08
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I blame Skanky for Spike's error of judgement (you just can't win )
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February 15, 2003, 08:38
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Originally posted by Frozzy
I blame Skanky for Spike's error of judgement (you just can't win )
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Yeah well he was pretty unclear.
/me is happy to shift fault on to a natural scapegoat.
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February 16, 2003, 02:25
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In the FAQ it says that custom avatars are allowed after 500 posts yet i've seen people with less than that get one. Why is it???
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February 16, 2003, 02:27
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When avatars were originally introduced, the rule was 500 posts or 1 year of being here. People who were here 1 year but didn't have many posts could get a custom avatar. When the rule was changed, they kept their custom avatar but couldn't switch to a different custom one.
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February 16, 2003, 05:10
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Also, some people got to 500 posts and changed to a custom avatar. They then did something naughty enough to warrent a PCR (post count reduction) and hence had less than 500 posts whilst still retaining their custom avatar.
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February 16, 2003, 08:09
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Both those reasons sound right, but I haven't seen anyone with a custom avatar and less than 500 posts anyway.
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