OT: TinyPic shutdown/fix your avatar/sigs

[SOUL]

Copy pasted from Dirk on the GB, but for those of you that use TinyPic, your avatar and sigs will not display correctly anymore, here's how to update it:

TinyPic will be permanently shutting down on September 16, 2019, the last day for TinyPic account holders to access their accounts and download their images, including thebigbird and his 2TB Lebron photo album.

Time to update your avatar https://forums.realgm.com/boards/ucp.php?i=ucp_profile&mode=avatar

Alternatives to host the images.
https://imgur.com/
https://imgbb.com/
https://catbox.moe/
https://postimages.org/

Idea to retrieve your old avatar.

If it helps anybody who had a specific avatar they wanted to keep, these are some steps I gave over on the Bucks board (the best little board! ) that should hopefully help you out.

I noticed a few people have the TinyPic error/goodbye message turning up as their avatar. I had that issue, the files are gone from TinyPic but if you want to grab the exact file you can do it by;
1. going to your profile on realgm, then "edit avatar" and under there the URL it had been hosted at should be in "Link off-site" (if you try to go directly to that link you'll just get the same error message)
2. go to the Wayback Machine at https://archive.org/web/ and paste that URL for your image in there under "browse history" to see if it has any hits for the file (it hopefully will, I could fine mine so the archive was trawling either realgm or tinypic)
3. save that archive version and upload somewhere else (I popped mine on https://imgur.com/ ) then just update the URL for your avatar

[Blue_and_Whte]

Copy pasted from Dirk on the GB, but for those of you that use TinyPic, your avatar and sigs will not display correctly anymore, here's how to update it:

TinyPic will be permanently shutting down on September 16, 2019, the last day for TinyPic account holders to access their accounts and download their images, including thebigbird and his 2TB Lebron photo album.

Time to update your avatar https://forums.realgm.com/boards/ucp.php?i=ucp_profile&mode=avatar

Alternatives to host the images.
https://imgur.com/
https://imgbb.com/
https://catbox.moe/
https://postimages.org/

Idea to retrieve your old avatar.

If it helps anybody who had a specific avatar they wanted to keep, these are some steps I gave over on the Bucks board (the best little board! ) that should hopefully help you out.

ill get this done today. Time for a new one anyway. Thanks for the reminder.