January 2010 Bug Report Thread

[Rosso]

I think the avatar problem might be an issue involving linking a Facebook avatar with your TJR identity. Facebook seems to allow larger avatar file sizes than TJR. If you elect to link your TJR avatar with Facebook and the Facebook avatar exceeds the TJR allowable file size all that is displayed is the empty box with the red X in it.

[Slowhands]

Originally Posted by Rosso

I think the avatar problem might be an issue involving linking a Facebook avatar with your TJR identity. Facebook seems to allow larger avatar file sizes than TJR. If you elect to link your TJR avatar with Facebook and the Facebook avatar exceeds the TJR allowable file size all that is displayed is the empty box with the red X in it.

That might be one way it goes wrong, but I fashioned my avatar specifically for TJR. It was a camera photograph that I compressed and cropped down to supposedly appropriate size, and was accepted by the site for several months. I don't have any links between Juicy and FB. If there is one thing I have learned about soft- and hard-ware related entities, is that no matter how good the design or execution, "bugs happen."

[cdh]

Originally Posted by Slowhands

That might be one way it goes wrong, but I fashioned my avatar specifically for TJR. It was a camera photograph that I compressed and cropped down to supposedly appropriate size, and was accepted by the site for several months. I don't have any links between Juicy and FB. If there is one thing I have learned about soft- and hard-ware related entities, is that no matter how good the design or execution, "bugs happen."

Hey, I thought I made a separate Bug thread

"Bugs Happen" - a bumper sticker seen on Veyron headed for a lagoon

Yer right Mr H, they do

[sydude]

Originally Posted by Rosso

I think the avatar problem might be an issue involving linking a Facebook avatar with your TJR identity. Facebook seems to allow larger avatar file sizes than TJR. If you elect to link your TJR avatar with Facebook and the Facebook avatar exceeds the TJR allowable file size all that is displayed is the empty box with the red X in it.

I'll bump up the avatar size on TJR to match Facebook. Anyone know what the facebook size is?

[cdh]

Originally Posted by sydude

I'll bump up the avatar size on TJR to match Facebook. Anyone know what the facebook size is?

200 wide for sure, up to about 400 tall, maybe even 500 tall

[Slowhands]

Originally Posted by cdh

200 wide for sure, up to about 400 tall, maybe even 500 tall

Somewhat larger avatar size capability would give more flexibility, but I don't know if you want to fully match FB, since here the avatar appears on every post. 400 or 500 tall avatars would cause post headers to take up an awful lot of real estate, and significantly stretch the thread vertically with unused blank space requiring much more scrolling.

[Rosso]

My FB avatar is 200x205. When I llinked it to TJR I got the empty box. Switched back to 150x150 and no problem.

[cdh]

Sy - the hot racing news feed is posting the news in the top Skip Racing Series forum again - not sure what the fix is to this, let me know pls....
thanks
cdh

[sydude]

Originally Posted by cdh

Sy - the hot racing news feed is posting the news in the top Skip Racing Series forum again - not sure what the fix is to this, let me know pls....
thanks
cdh

I just checked, and everything seems to be ok. The settings are right, so if it happens again don't move or delete threads until I can look at them and see what the issue is.