[Bug] Gravatar

Discussion in 'Help & Support / Errors & Bugs' started by 314, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. 314

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    Minecraft Username: 314.

    Brief Description: Gravatar user pictures are not displaying.

    Instructions:
    • Look at any user avatar. (Fig. 1 shows my profile page because I wanted to list multiple avatars in one screenshot.)
    • Look at a bugged user's profile. (Fig. 2)
    • Note that the picture has been replaced with text. (Hover over it to see the cursor change.)
    • Successfully attempt to drag and drop it. (Fig. 3)
    • Drop it into the URL bar of your browser.
    • Note that it attempts to load something related to Gravatar for every bugged avatar that is treated this way.
    • Wait until the URL is resulting in a timeout, i.e. failing to load the picture.

    How many times did you recreate this bug?:
    Every time since today.

    Result:
    A missing profile picture.

    Expected Result:
    A profile picture.

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    Additional information: I have no idea what Gravatar is, but because of Fig. 4 I blame it for this bug.
     
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  2. JamieSinn

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    My avatar is gravatar; does it work for me?
     
  3. Obblebobble

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    I believe mine is also a gravatar. As above, is mine working for you? I can see my own and others fine.
     
  4. kukelekuuk

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    Yet another 314 peculiarity. Do we even need to take 314's bug reports seriously at this point?
     
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    I get the same thing sometimes, it's weird.
     
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  7. 314

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    To those who mentioned they use gravatar - I can't see the picture on my PC.

    Tried with different browsers. Same result for all. It seems to be related to the fact that the gravatar web page itself returns a timeout error for me.

    I know that I hate to say the following sentence on most of my bug reports so far, but...
    It works fine on my phone.
     
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    I use gravatar. No issues here.
     
  9. freddyagogog

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    Gravatars work fine for me.
     
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    My windows command line tells me that the signal seems to break off somewhere in europe. I have no idea why my phone can reach the gravatar servers without a problem while in the same network, however.
     
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    Problem solved.

    I did a lot of background checks to find out why the gravatar website was not accessible for me, then became extremely annoyed when I found out that the Github main website was showing exactly the same symptoms. A tracert via the windows command line resulted in immediate termination of the request.

    Turns out that Google Public DNS doesn't answer some requests. I messed around with my DNS settings and now Github and the Gravatar page are accessible again - which leads to proper displaying of Gravatar images on the forum.