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Avatars don't update

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I have changed my avatar, yet I stil see Nostalgia Critic instead of my new one. In options, I see my new one and when I go to a different PC, I still see Hans Gruber, which I removed long ago.

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Actually, on second thought, don’t clear your cache and/or refresh your page. You’ll have to look at the new face of 005.

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You mean the Mel Gibson one? Yeah I don’t have problem with that, I see other peoples avatars change fine. Just not mine.

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I have been trying to upload a new avatar since yesterday to no avail. Has this been happening to anyone else recently?

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But you have a new avatar? A blond girl with a waffle?

Ceci n’est pas une signature.

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What the fucking shit? I still see Jason Voorhees

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Clearing my cache worked but what’s funny is that the avatar didn’t change yesterday when I was on my Iphone. If anything I should have seen the new one on there instead of my computer.

Thank you Frank.

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The problem is that Avatar images are served under your user ID, so the URL never changes. Also the http header allows for an enormously long caching time (Cache-Control: max-age=31536000). i see ETag is being used, but unless i am confused, that only applies once the max-age has expired?

A simple fix may be to serve the images by the pre-computed md5 hash of the actual image file, instead of the userid. it would mean an extra piece of data needs to be looked up for each user when loading a page.

Am i oversimplifying this?

Refreshing is annoying, especially on my android phone, where it seems i have to actually go into the site ‘storage’ settings to deleted cached data.

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I have a problem where my Avatar is not showing up. I uploaded a small picture of Yoda with an Ewok and Gizmo.
Does anyone see my Avatar? I uploaded it again with no luck. I checked the site in a Chrome Incognito window, and it was displayed. Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thank You.

UPDATE: Nevermind, I finally got my Avatar to appear.

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My avatar won’t show up… I loaded it in my account and it shows up there… but I can’t get it to load on threads

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Try refreshing the page, or clearing your broswer cache. I can see your Lobot just fine. 😃

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Where were you in '77?

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Interesting - you have to clear the cache - forcing a full reload won’t do it.