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As you may have noticed, we we're offline this morning. This was caused by the "Thanks" plug-in going rogue and using up way too many server resources. This triggered an automatic suspension by our hosting provider as they thought it was a malicious attack. The "Thanks" plug-in has been disabled, hopefully temporarily so I can determine if that was indeed the cause, and take steps to prevent it from happening in the future.

I apologize for the disruption and for any confusion that may have caused.

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If you would like to have a custom avatar, it can easily be added by editing your user settings.

Click the "Edit avatar" button, and follow the on screen instructions.

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Do I have to somehow reduce a saved image to 6kb for it to be accepted as an avatar? If so, how do I do that, please? Perhaps I'm missing something. Thanks for the help and the amazingly quick fixes here, but it's not an urgent issue---"first things first!"
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Robangel wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 7:20 am Do I have to somehow reduce a saved image to 6kb for it to be accepted as an avatar? If so, how do I do that, please? Perhaps I'm missing something. Thanks for the help and the amazingly quick fixes here, but it's not an urgent issue---"first things first!"
Resizing to a maximum of 90x90 pixels is required. I have altered the file size limitations to 250kb, so it should be much easier to get an avatar accepted by the system.

If you need help resizing an image, let me know.
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I use this service for resizing: http://picasion.com/resize-image/

It can take a couple tries to get it below 90x90 but it keeps the image quality pretty well.
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