Avatars are here! Here's how to set them using steemit.com -or- the CLI
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Avatars are here! Here's how to set them using steemit.com -or- the CLI / https://peakd.com/@pfunk/avatars-are-here-here-s-how-to-set-them-using-steemit-com-or-the-cli
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Is steemimg.com still in beta or something? Seems I couldn't upload anything. I also got an error when trying to upload a avatar there. I sent them a message with all the error details.
Oh well, I just made an imgur account instead.
Should do the trick. Thanks for the hosting ideas.
Perfect timing! I just got SteemIMG back online so everyone feel free to host your avatars there, just posted the info here. As you can see I already have my avatar up ;)
Nice! Your link goes to this post here instead of your post.
@blueorgy's post: https://steemit.com/steemimg/@blueorgy/steemimg-image-uploading-is-back-online-just-in-time-for-profile-pictures
Whoops! thanks! I rushed it seems haha, fixed my link as well.
Well that failed miserably for me, any tips or hints about what I may have done wrong? I put this URL (http://steemimg.com/image/WhzQT) into the profile picture URL box exactly as shown above and get what you see next to this post. I then tried putting
into said box and nothing changed.
When I put that url on it's own line you see what I get, am I missing a step somewhere here or on steemimg.com?
Is it not public? Protected in some other way? or just not fully uploaded ready for public viewing?
Sorry, still basically a steem noob, haven't had much time to work with it since signing up.
Interesting. Well you would use the direct link :
http:// steemimg.com/images/2016/11/10/SkekzyzAvatar01a195d.jpg
but for some reason steemit isn't picking it up, All files are public and if you navigate to the image url it shows up just fine. I am looking into this now
As you see it is a .jpg and quite old, as in 12+ years, but it's the same one I use everywhere else unless it needs a smaller image size kb or pixels, which I made downsized ones long ago too.
The first difference I notice is that my URL with the short code is missing a ".jpg" where pfunk's has a ".png".
Does steemit have any restrictions on image size or type for the avatar?
Could something have gone wrong when I put the short code URL in first?
to fix for now add "www." to the URL , sorry looks as though some DNS settings may be off
looks like that worked
thanks hope the bug reporting helped
Thanks for the mention!
I should also add that you can use transparent gifs, just make sure they look good on the blue background.
Thanks for the post...done mine, just disappointed that the picture doesn't seem to be clear...thinking of trying another picture just to test.
I suggest a square-cropped picture for this reason. The avatars get resized to 48x48 pixels so any small details will be lost.
Thanks will try it.
Something going wrong...
I'd try rehosting the image and then updating the avatar URL again. I see it as working with a direct link http://steemimg.com/images/2016/11/10/avatarc0f1b.png but maybe Steemit's image rehoster didn't pick it up and the placeholder is cached.
I think too that it is cached. And i can't clear it...
Try a new image.
I tried many times, many hosting, many resolutions. I broke Steemit again :)
There seems to be an issue with steemimg's response headers (content-type is returned as
text/html)Aha, just got one up after reading a post by @ausbitbank!
This is a welcome change and I, for one, am happy we are focussing on the social aspect of things!
Thanks, I didn't find that one in my search. https://steemit.com/steemit/@ausbitbank/woot-we-have-profile-pictures-and-a-new-settings-screen-100-sp
I mostly wanted to make a post for the cli_wallet instructions but didn't see that post and didn't see any grandma-proof instructions with the visual aid at the time.
I guess it caught all of us unawares, but a welcome addition anyway!
Awesome!
great :D
Oh yeah! Avatars.
Thanks for the heads up! :D