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Hey, uh, what happened to folks' avatars?
DarkPrimus
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
I see some people here and there still have their avatars displaying, but all of a sudden the majority of avatars have been replaced with this:
Which is named defaulticon.png but I know for a fact some of the folks sporting it right now had avatars like an hour ago.
Which is named defaulticon.png but I know for a fact some of the folks sporting it right now had avatars like an hour ago.
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Seems to be progressively and quickly spreading, when I first saw it a few minutes ago it was only a couple people who I initially assumed were new users. But as I went from thread to thread they slowly took over, now I'm hardly seeing any avatars.
Edit: as an example, when I clicked on this thread, I still saw DarkPrimus's, after posting this it's gone. Mine's still here for now. Seems to be just me, Tube, and anyone with the default silhouette avatar left on my end.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
This is a lot more unsettling than I would have expected, I rely on avatars a lot more than usernames
What a coincidence
Your avatar is back and it sure looks like its talking shit to me right now. Also a coincidence, I'm sure. :biggrin:
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Which I'm fine with, it makes me feel important
Steam
Should’ve called it a forum event to keep people busy guessing what the conditions are.
People keep popping into and out of existence for me.
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
Looks like if I navigate off the page and then hit Back the avatars have loaded.
.. scratch that, that doesn't seem to work anymore.
Disabling JS for penny-arcade.com does fix it, so it's definitely a JS thing
Comes from here: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/blob/46b4cf2410f05d3731fc544a0daf0302ca785b96/js/global.js#L1575
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=16534
also on mobile i've seen all the avatars load in on the thread index for a split second then disappear
Ironically when I tried this, it fixed it for everyone elses profile pic bar yours.
EDIT: The fix seems to be hit and miss. Fixes it for some but not others. And every time I use it, it fixes a new set of profile pictures and others are broken.
Oi, I resemble that remark
Glad to hear it wasn't on my end; it was starting to drive me nuts.
I'm wondering if it's just an order of scripts in a .js file somewhere that's putting the default image last instead of first, or vise versa.
(I'm used to these things taking days to track down and the problem being a single line in the wrong place. Computers are fun)
Yes what you're seeing is the normal page load before the script runs. If the startup script is slow you'll see all the avs show up for a few frames
That's what I'm seeing on this page, too - except for people who haven't chosen an avatar, and admin accounts. So Dark Primus, Tube and you show up with something other that "default face", and Ringo's avatar shows up in reactions since he seems to also use the default avatar.
adblocking global.js seems to solve the issue on my end... seemingly breaking very little when blocked