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    Posted: February 11 2009 at 20:41
Strange one. 

I am seeing some wildly erratic avatar sizes on the front page.  While some are smaller than the album covers, others, like BirdsWithTeeth's avatar is HUGE, like at least 4 times bigger than the album covers he is reviewing. 

Other members are not seeing this apparently. 

I'm using Firefox and have never had a problem viewing the front page.  Is anyone else seeing this or am I the only one?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 21:36
I'm seeing it and I'm confused. I'm just assuming that the site is undergoing some minor renovations and the bugs are simply temporary. If it persists, though, then I'll be back to hound the site admins... Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2009 at 21:56
The problem is that birdwithteeth was too lazy to resize his avatar himself, so he just uploaded the whole image to PA, which for some reason Max allows. Most of the time it is resized unobtrusively, except to your internet connection, which has to load the whole damn thing even though you are only seeing the resized version, but sometimes the resizing breaks, such as on the Reviews List page and on the front page in your case, so you get stuck with scrolling past the ZOMGHUGE image instead of just being forced to unnecessarily load it to rape Max's bandwidth.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 01:38
The problem seems to have been fixed Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 05:15
No, it's still screwed up, which is telling me only some of us see the problem.  As I said it looked fine to another member, so only some users are seeing it.

Harry, it isn't necessary to insult other members who may not know as much about this stuff as you, I don't have much clue about this stuff either.  It isn't about being lazy. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 07:27
Yep, something funky is going on.  The avatars are sometimes larger than the album being reviewed.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 07:40
Yup, I'm seeing this too.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 12 2009 at 08:28
Hummmm -- since I can't reprodude this bug, i just removed the avatars for now in the front page reviews.

And work this out...

thanks for reporting
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2009 at 11:34
I see the problem on firefox but not on safari.  The avatars are gone now, of course, but the cover art for the album being reviewed is still much larger than the box that it's supposed to fit into to the extent that it bleeds over into the right column graphics.

Edited by Trademark - February 13 2009 at 11:35
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 00:00
Does TRADEMARK's the only one with this BUG ?

Sorry I can't reproduce this one.

Did you try CLEAR CACHE, CLOSE BROWSER and try again ?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 00:04
Max, the album covers (for those with Firefox) are larger than the column and they cross over into the right hand column a bit.  Not a huge deal, just a looks thing. 

But at work on IE I didn't have the problem. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 00:09
HUMMMM is it possible to send a screenshot a the Firefox version ? (check the HELP - ABOUT menu)
to [email protected]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 06:01
Well, I use Firefox 3.0.6 and everything's perfect for me.

BTW, a nice addition of the Pop-Up Media Player for every band/artist that is reviewed on the front page. Clap
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 09:43
I tried "print screen" and nothing happened.  Unless you can explain steps (in computer moron language) to do this I'm afraid I can't help you there.


As far as the version, I also have the 3.0.6 firefox.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 11:17
Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Max, the album covers (for those with Firefox) are larger than the column and they cross over into the right hand column a bit.  Not a huge deal, just a looks thing. 

But at work on IE I didn't have the problem. 

I had this problem too. Clearing your cached files should do the trick, I think. Try using ccleaner.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 15:40
Everything seems to be working properly in Firefox now after clearing the cache. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2009 at 16:02
In my browser, I just did Tools/Options/Network/Clear Now, and viola!   Front page fixed!  I didn't have to download anything.

Thanks for the help everyone!!Smile
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