If you need any background on the issue, check out the following thread in the SigForum Office: https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...0601935/m/5520063015

Para and several others have been trying to help solve this problem, but so far nothing has worked. Pipesmoker suggested I post a request here for anyone else who has hosted avatar images to see if they're willing to help; Orguss was specifically recommended.

If you are willing to try helping, please choose the following link and download that image to your server, then let me know so I can try to link it to my avatar setting in my profile. Thanks in advance to any and all who are willing to try!!!

https://i.postimg.cc/tT9xfdR1/Bronica-ETRS-60x60.jpg

I think member creslin does avatar hosting for members here.

The only thing I could find posted by "creslin" on image hosting is over 5 years old, and the link he provided is no longer active. Seems he was experiencing a good bit of trouble at the time with the way things were set up.

I have e-mailed him directly about it and will see what he says...

Thanks for the hint!

You can DIY, just setup a free account at IMGUR.com, follow the prompts to upload your image from a PC or phone with their app and then link it into your profile.

Then you can host images to post in threads if you want.

www.imgur.com

And you think I haven't tried that? Did you read the thread that I posted a link to in the SigForum office???

Imgur has been tried every which way possible, and it doesn't work. Para has tried it along with others, and it doesn't work for anyone! Other sites tried include "Postimage", "Flickr", "ImgBB", etc.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: bronicabill,

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Originally posted by bronicabill:
And you think I haven't tried that??? Did you read the thread that I posted a link to in the SigForum office???

Imgur has been tried every which way possible, and it doesn't work. Para has tried it along with others, and it doesn't work for anyone! Other sites tried include "Postimage", "Flickr", "ImgBB", etc.

Huh, doesn't work for anyone, now would you look at that.....



BTW my avatar is hosted from imgur...

HRK.

Try changing your avatar to something else you have hosted on Imgur and let us know how it goes.

thx

sm

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Originally posted by HRK:
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Huh, doesn't work for anyone, now would you look at that.....



BTW my avatar is hosted from imgur...

Again, I don't think you read the OP or the rest of the thread! Yes, I can link to images within a post just fine, from ALL of the sites that I have tried. What DOESN'T work, and even Para will verify this because he tried for me, is adding an AVATAR within a profile!!!

Try adding that image from Imgur to YOUR profile and let us all see it work!!!

Edit to add: My old avatar of my bass guitar was hosted on Postimages.org, and it worked just fine. NOW it doesn't, and nobody really knows why, including Para!

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
HRK.

Try changing your avatar to something else you have hosted on Imgur and let us know how it goes.

thx

sm

Interesting, the SF software won't let me change, however mine is hosted from IMGUR.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
HRK.

Try changing your avatar to something else you have hosted on Imgur and let us know how it goes.

thx

sm

Already tried; didn't work. Have tried multiple images from every image hosting site I could find, and not a single one works for avatars, but they work fine for linking images inside of a post.

Oops, I thought you were talking to me SM, then I reread your response and realized you were addressing HRK...

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Originally posted by HRK:
Interesting, the SF software won't let me change, however mine is hosted from IMGUR.

What I am understanding from reading older posts on the subject is that all was fine until SF changed from HTTP to HTTPS. Any avatars linked before the change still work from those sites, but after the change they will not link!

Possible, here is the page with the url to the imgur image for mine shows https for the image whats interesting is that when going to get the same image, the url is different at imgur for the avatar, it's now:

https ://i.imgur.com/dp80kWfm.jpg?1
vs whats in the SF image hosted from imgur below

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Originally posted by 12131:
I think member creslin does avatar hosting for members here.

I e-mailed him earlier and he said he doesn't host them anymore because after the change here to HTTPS, he would be required to get an HTTPS license (or something to that effect), plus some additional changes to his setup that would cost a good bit of money, therefore he quit doing it.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Possible, here is the page with the url to the imgur image for mine shows https for the image

Okay, use the following link and download my image, then update your avatar to it and see what happens.

https://i.postimg.cc/tT9xfdR1/Bronica-ETRS-60x60.jpg

That's what I did before, uploaded it, I can see it in it's 60x60 form, but SF software returns a message that it can't find the image with that URL, even though it's a working URL so it won't let me change it.

Odd that I can see mine, using imgur but not yours coming from my imgur page.

something in the SF software must be blocking that link

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...reading older posts on the subject is that all was fine until SF changed from HTTP to HTTPS. Any avatars linked before the change still work from those sites, but after the change they will not link!.

Absolutely correct. That's why I asked HRK to try it so he understood.

And Imgur creates unique/random generated names for the images uploaded, and user's cannot rename the image, it prevents a workaround by uploading a new image, then (renaming or deleting one's current avatar image in Imgur) and editing the name of the new image to the same as what the link SIGforum database currently has as a reference*.


*what is contained in the SIGforum database, (and for whatever reason, the forum has problems with some hosting and the way the image/link is written to the board's database).

This is what happens as standards change, and not all applications or backend coding are always in synch woth the standards or methods used.

So, everytime an update is done in one place, it may break or depreciate something and the result is similar to this.

And often, it is beyond the ability of the issue to be overcome from end user's.

( I have encountered this on sites I host/manage or have worked with. Some things I was/am able to work around, re-write or patch, and others are in compiled routines and the originator will not make changes or support workarounds.)

Trying not to get too deep on all of this. It is the nature of the technology.


FWIW. To anyone who has their avatar hosted by me, and wants to change their avatar, I can rename files, so I would like to try see if this works. Just email me.

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
<<snip>>
FWIW. To anyone who has their avatar hosted by me, and wants to change their avatar, I can rename files, so I would like to try see if this works. Just email me.

Have you tried it with mine yet?

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Absolutely correct. That's why I asked HRK to try it so he understood.

Interesting since mines hosted at imgur, and, it's an https link you'd presume it would work for his as well since it works for mine.

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Absolutely correct. That's why I asked HRK to try it so he understood.

Interesting since mines hosted at imgur, and, it's an https link you'd presume it would work for his as well since it works for mine.

And THAT is what's so damned frustrating to me!!! It makes zero sense...

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Originally posted by bronicabill:
And THAT is what's so damned frustrating to me!!! It makes zero sense...

even more interesting, your current avatar is hosted at sigform.com in it's avatar repository, or at least that's what it shows when opening it in a new window, and it shows http not https...

http : //sigforum.com/groupee_common/platform_images/avatars/set1/21.jpg

both SM and mine are hosted at third party locations, mine imgur and his at the monkey server.

Question is if I change mine to something else would the SF software allow it to change it another imgur image, and if not would it let me change it back...