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Title: Does anyone know of a good avatar hosting site for Bay12?
Post by: Red Diamond on June 09, 2020, 09:37:48 am

Is there a good avatar image hosting site you know of for this forum? I have been having some trouble uploading images for my profile.

Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good avatar hosting site for Bay12?
Post by: TamerVirus on June 09, 2020, 09:42:42 am

A couple of forum users here (including me) use a website called SignAvatar and have a bunch of images on rotate

Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good avatar hosting site for Bay12?
Post by: scriver on June 09, 2020, 10:18:14 am

A common problem with avatars on here is that the forum doesn't seem to be able to parse the new https addresses. If your link starts with that try changing it to http (that is just remove the s, yes) instead.

Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good avatar hosting site for Bay12?
Post by: MaxTheFox on June 09, 2020, 11:19:47 am

Any image from any website (from Discord CDN to Imgur to Wikipedia) will work if you do as Scriver said and remove the s from "https".

Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good avatar hosting site for Bay12?
Post by: Red Diamond on June 12, 2020, 02:21:37 pm

I have done it, thanks for people's help.

Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good avatar hosting site for Bay12?
Post by: RoseHeart on May 12, 2021, 11:50:39 pm

With the form no longer taking new submissions from imgur, after a brief google search I picked https://i.postimg.cc

Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good avatar hosting site for Bay12?
Post by: delphonso on May 13, 2021, 03:18:23 am

I use an image from a wiki, but also think postimg is pretty good.

Title: Re: Does anyone know of a good avatar hosting site for Bay12?
Post by: EuchreJack on May 13, 2021, 09:34:19 pm

I created an account at https://imgbb.com/ to host images, and with lots of tweaking, I got it to work for my avatar!