Avatar fails

I've only recntly subscribed to MSE Forum and had the same problem with not being able to select or see my own Avatar. I started a thread asking about it, "Avatar not visible" but found the solution myself. If you have a look at my thread it expains what I discovered. I've copied and pasted a bit of it.




I've been trying things out. The skin that you get when you register, "Use Forum Default (recommended)", (the blue skin), doesn't display the MSE pre-defined images even though one is selected by default. It does however show a custom Avatar that you upload. The skin that I switched to, "New masthead, fixed width (recommended), (the green skin), shows all Avatars. That's why members using the blue skin can't see pre-defined Avatars created on the green skin. I've tried everything I can think of to get the blue skin to show pre-defined Avatars but I can't get it to work. I've sent a message to "Technical Problems" hoping they can offer a solution. If anyone reading this is having the same problem I recommend switching to the green skin, "New masthead, fixed width (recommended) . It looks a lot different but it works better and once you get to know it you won't go back. You can easily switch back from the green skin via "User CP" in the green bar if you can't get happy with it. That takes you to "Your Profile" where you can make the changes.


Hope this is of some help to you. :beer:


Having posted this I can see that reading the whole string might be better.