Avatar selection page appears to be broken again

[Jesse Heinig]

Recently, making a new alias for a forum-based game, I tried to select an avatar for the alias. I discovered that the page for alias selection now uses some kind of box formatting that places several of the choices offscreen to the right, removes all sense of aligning of the pictures, and does not allow selection of the next page of pictures. Apparently all pictures now have their full info box shown by default, instead of on mouseover.

This makes it nearly impossible to pick an alias picture, as many of them wind up unselectable and it's hard to parse through the page.

Here is a link to what I'm seeing when I'm on the avatar selection page. As you can see in the screencap, on the far right is an up-down scrollbar, but there is no left-right, and one of the images on the right is cut off; you can't even scroll to select the images.

[Chris Lambertz]

Hey Jesse, thank you for giving us a heads up about this issue. I've passed it along to our team and once we have a fix, we'll provide an update.

[Yewstance]

Can confirm this problem makes avatar selection range from "a pain" to "impossible", depending on what precisely you're trying to do. It's also worth noting that the issue I reported here in May is still present, and avatar pictures that were made available after a certain date (I believe at least a date one and a half years ago) are unable to be found with any filters. This, among other things, makes it impossible to search out a great many iconic characters, such as any image of the Spiritualist, Estra.

[Jesse Heinig]

Yewstance wrote:

Can confirm this problem makes avatar selection range from "a pain" to "impossible", depending on what precisely you're trying to do. It's also worth noting that the issue I reported here in May is still present, and avatar pictures that were made available after a certain date (I believe at least a date one and a half years ago) are unable to be found with any filters. This, among other things, makes it impossible to search out a great many iconic characters, such as any image of the Spiritualist, Estra.

That's interesting, sounds like an extension of the problem of metatagging with incorrect or misspelled tags - or in this case, no tags at all.

[motteditor]

Any progress on this? I'm creating some new playtest characters/aliases and would love to be able to pick art for them. Thanks!

[GrinningJest3r]

Jesse Heinig wrote:

Recently, making a new alias for a forum-based game, I tried to select an avatar for the alias. I discovered that the page for alias selection now uses some kind of box formatting that places several of the choices offscreen to the right, removes all sense of aligning of the pictures, and does not allow selection of the next page of pictures. Apparently all pictures now have their full info box shown by default, instead of on mouseover.

This makes it nearly impossible to pick an alias picture, as many of them wind up unselectable and it's hard to parse through the page.

Here is a link to what I'm seeing when I'm on the avatar selection page. As you can see in the screencap, on the far right is an up-down scrollbar, but there is no left-right, and one of the images on the right is cut off; you can't even scroll to select the images.

Nice. Glad to know it's not just me.

[Qstor]

Yeah avatars from newer products and Starfinder avatars would be great. People have been asking for these for a while.

[GrinningJest3r]

OH!!! Hey guys, just wanted to let everybody know that for the broken avatar selection page, you should be able to scroll out and see the rest of the items as well as the page selection options! I don't know why I didn't think of trying that earlier, but it does work. If you don't have an accessible zoom option on your browser, hold CTRL and scroll down on your mouse/mousepad.

[motteditor]

I tried scrolling out, but it's still not working for me. I can maybe get it to show me the top row of avatars and a few others, but then I can't get the mouse-over information, and most of them are still effectively unavailable.

Screenshot is available here.

[Black Dow]

Scroll out not working for me either - was up until the site came back onstream, since then like motteditor its pretty much unusable.

Know its likely not a priority when compared to the bigger site issues, but to pbp'ers and GMs it was a valuable resource (if somewhat overdue an injection of fresh options).

Cheers

BD

[GM Mazra]

Unable to change Avatars in Message board Aliases. See this Screenshot.

Thanks.

[Jesse Heinig]

Yep, while the server migration is done, it looks like this is still totally unusable.

[Black Dow]

Wonder if we're reaching a juncture where users should be able to just download/generate their own icons/profile pics?

There's a huge backload of Paizo based material that's never been uploaded (incl. Starfinder a year on) and the current avatar selection is, as we're flagging up, unusable.

[Doomed Hero]

I'm having this issue as well, only now the boxes below the images are stacked up on top of each other, making the selection screen completely unusable aside from the top row. (See Mazra's picture two posts up)

[Z...D...]

Same...Any time frame on when it will be fixed???

[Agent Eclipse]

Over a month and no update. Making choosing Avatars for new aliases effectively impossible aside from the top bar. Same as above screenshot.

[Ouachitonian]

Yeah, I'm having the same problem.

[zaarbuc]

Come on paizo, a really poor showing here to let an issue like this go on for so long. I've been unable to select an avatar for my new SFS character. Same issue as described/shown. I've tried Chrome, FireFox, Edge, IE, mobile, compatibility view, cleared cache... Not that I'm likely to find many good options for a Lashunta without Starfinder material being uploaded. Why the all the technical issues on your site recently has not caused a mass exodus of the PBP community from your forums in favor of sites geared specifically for PBP I don't understand.

[Qstor]

Black Dow wrote:

There's a huge backload of Paizo based material that's never been uploaded (incl. Starfinder a year on) and the current avatar selection is, as we're flagging up, unusable.

*sigh*

[Papa-DRB]

Windows 7 Home Premium
Firefox 62.0 (64 bit)

I have found that going to the Select Avatar page and slowly moving the cursor from left to right over the top row of avatars, makes the 2nd row show up correctly. Continue the slow moving cursor on the 2nd row causes the 3rd row to show up, etc.

You can then use the "normal" click on a picture and it shows the select button and picture information.

I found it better if I used the selection criteria on the left side "human", "male", "fighter" (or other criteria) to winnow down the choices to a manageable number of pictures.

-- david

[GM Mazra]

Thanks David. How have you been doing?

Mazra

[Papa-DRB]

Your welcome. Doing well. Life is good, how about you?

-- david

[GM Mazra]

Busy. But good. Always nice to come across one of the best DMs I have had the honor to play under. BTW- Firefox does seem to work better. I was using Chrome.

[Papa-DRB]

Thanks for the compliment. I stopped using Chrome when it would not run Java anymore.

[zaarbuc]

Papa-DRB wrote:

Windows 7 Home Premium

Firefox 62.0 (64 bit)

I have found that going to the Select Avatar page and slowly moving the cursor from left to right over the top row of avatars, makes the 2nd row show up correctly. Continue the slow moving cursor on the 2nd row causes the 3rd row to show up, etc.

You can then use the "normal" click on a picture and it shows the select button and picture information.

I found it better if I used the selection criteria on the left side "human", "male", "fighter" (or other criteria) to winnow down the choices to a manageable number of pictures.

-- david

Interesting, it is as if every icon begins with the mouse-over engaged. Doing a mouse-over normally resets the status for that image. A cumbersome workaround but effective. Still not many good images for the new Starfinder races though. Really Paizo, isn't it about time you let people upload their own images like every other message board on the internet. I understand there may be some concerns over content but surely that should be no bigger concern that the text content people post. You can always take action against a user that causes problems.

[Rysky]

zaarbuc wrote:

I understand there may be some concerns over content but surely that should be no bigger concern that the text content people post.

Copyright says hello.

zaarbuc wrote:

You can always take action against a user that causes problems.

"I know this will cause issues for you but that's your problem" isn't really an effective argument for trying to get something implemented.

The new work load would be astronomical, having to go check every user's avatar to see if they're using anything explicit or that would cause legal issues.

[zaarbuc]

Do they check every post for explicit content, or copyrighted material for that matter? I can post either in text form just As easily. As I said every other site on the internet manages to do this. I game on several others, the only reason I come back here at all is the size of the community means a large number of recruitment threads.

[Decimus Observet]

It is unfortunate that this is still an ongoing issue.

[Magabeus]

For Play by Post games this is a serious issue, can you please fix this?

[Z...D...]

So the work around that Papa-DRB suggested does in fact work and I thank him for figuring this out. But, hopefully this glitch is fixed before I make anymore characters.

[Codanous]

Can confirm, still a problem, the fix makes its only agonizing lol

[motteditor]

Agreed. And it's also not sorting as it's supposed to (I told it to sort by usage, but by checking the rollover text, whatever order it was using certainly didn't seem to be by usage).

[Zero the Nothing]

I'm having the exact same issue as the screenshot posted above. This is very frustrating as I'm trying to put a new PFS character up and I can't see the ****in' avatar pictures.

[pauljathome]

So I've managed to FIND an Avatar that I kind of like.

What I haven't been able to do is to figure out how to select it.

Clicking, double clicking, wildly clicking, none of them work

I go to one of the many save an avatar buttons and click but seem to get a pretty random avatar from the page.

Any suggestions?

[Hmm]

I can only do it on a real computer, by waiting forever for the Avatar page to load, and then mousing over the image and finding the select button. I can't do this on my iPad at all.

It's completely borked. On the other hand... it's gotten me to stop asking about new Starfinder avatars for the moment. Right now, I'll settle for this issue getting fixed.

Hmm

[RHMG Animator]

Avatar selection is Really broken, that and there is Mixed content (secure and unsecure).

[Whitney Chatterjee]

Hey folks !

After our new code implementation this morning, we can report that the avatar selection page has been corrected!

Whitney

[Hmm]

Whitney Chatterjee wrote:

Hey folks !

After our new code implementation this morning, we can report that the avatar selection page has been corrected!

Whitney

Thanks, Whitney and Tech Team!

Hmm

[motteditor]

Hurrah, thanks.

Looks like some of the sorting may still be off (I'm sorting by usage and it's kind of all over the place). Selection is definitely usable now, so much lower priority for me, at least, but there's still some glitchiness going on.

[GM Mazra]

Yes. Thanks Paizo for fixing this. I have generic profiles for various NPCs or Monsters. I change the avatars often. So again, thanks.

[Jurassic Bard]

Thank you very much. :-)

[Qstor]

What about adding new avatars including Starfinder ones?

[Chris Lambertz]

We unblocked an issue that was preventing avatars to be added to the site recently, so I'd expect a thread with updates (similar to how we do update threads for other things) to show up soon :)

[Qstor]

Thanks Chris!

[Charli Poshkettle]

What? Starfinder avatars? SWOON!

[Cosmo Mariposa]

This will make me very happy! I'm a Shirren, but like other Shirrens on the site, I have to use some random bug to represent myself!

And those poor, poor kasathas!

[Chris Lambertz]

The sticky thread I mentioned has now been posted :)

[Joana]

Yay! :D

[Rysky]

Yay!

[Rysky]

Oh wow, got sneak peeks of Faiths of Golarion in there too ^w^