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May 8, 2013 at 1:48 am #1302686

Justin Baker
BPL Member

@justin_baker
Locale: Santa Rosa, CA

What's up with changing avatars? Sometimes it takes hours for it to update. And sometimes I upload a new picture and it reverts to an old picture I used months ago.

May 8, 2013 at 3:18 am #1984317

Roger Caffin
BPL Member

@rcaffin
Locale: Wollemi & Kosciusko NPs, Europe

There are several issues here.

Yes, it takes a little while for the new avatar to propagate through the servers BPL uses. Maybe an hour or two.

Your ISP may have your avatar photo cached and serve it to you from their cache rather than going back to the BPL servers. You have to get them to clean their cache. This can take hours – or days. If they do a restore they could conceivably revert.

Your own web browser may also have your old avatar held in cache, and cleaning that out can take time.

Try asking your browser to do a full refresh.

Cheers

May 8, 2013 at 5:38 am #1984333

Daniel Fish
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@danielfishfamilypdx-com
Locale: PDX

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May 8, 2013 at 3:44 pm #1984548

Justin Baker
BPL Member

@justin_baker
Locale: Santa Rosa, CA

f5 worked, thanks.
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