Problem using "Edit Avatar"

[Mike Lacy]

Greetings,

I've been trying to include an image for myself via "Edit Avatar," but after I browse to the image, and the image shows up momentarily in the dialog for that function, I then immediately get an error message that says "Image resize failed due to your image library not having support for this image type." To no avail, I tried versions of the image in gif, jpg, bmp, and png, The image is less than 200 X 200. Any thoughts on this?

And, a meta-comment here on personal images: While at first the idea of posting with a picture seemed overly personal to me, I've rethought this, and I think that this practice, while not something I would make an expectation, will further contribute to a culture of civility, as does our "real names please" norm.

Regards,
Mike Lacy
Fort Collins CO

[Nick Cox]

Personal images are a personal choice. There is no comment anywhere that we expect people to show images, or even that those images are, or should be, personally relevant.

Names are different!

[Dirk Enzmann]

I assume that the technical difficulty you are experiencing is related to a current problem of uploading graphs/images which is expected to be resolved this week, see Alan's post.

[Mike Lacy]

Thanks to Dirk here for pointing out the current image problems. And, Nick, no, I wasn't advocating making self-images an expectation. I was just describing my own experience in changing my mind about this practice.

Regards,
Mike Lacy
Fort Collins CO