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Title: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: rimglow on January 24, 2013, 09:31
After removing Norton antivirus from my Mac, I am not able to see all the little pictures on the Microstockgroup webpages anymore. Safari or Firefox. Anybody know how I get them back?

(http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/zz187/rimglow/avitars.jpg?t=1359037423)
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: disorderly on January 24, 2013, 09:34
Post hoc ergo propter hoc (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPost_hoc_ergo_propter_hoc&ei=T0YBUbywA5DxigKp-4GIAg&usg=AFQjCNFXYgsxm_wYYf7OqHM1Wu5P3s22XQ&sig2=RE0SNKNKZtgnk9dV_f-Zbw&bvm=bv.41524429,d.cGE).  Removing Norton has nothing to do with it.  None of the glyphs are showing up for me either.  I'm guessing it's a hosting problem on the forum.
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on January 24, 2013, 10:48
I'm on a the Mac and can't see avatars, icons or anything else this morning either
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: disorderly on January 24, 2013, 11:02
Looks like all the glyphs are supposed to come from a host called cloud.microstockgroup.com.  My DNS server doesn't recognize that hostname, and neither does the one at my web provider.  Bad, bad Leaf!
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: dhanford on January 24, 2013, 11:47
I'd say IS hacked the site, but that would be silly, they can't even manage their own site.  ;D
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: w7lwi on January 24, 2013, 11:58
No problem here.  PC with Windows Vista and Firefox 17.xxx.
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: disorderly on January 24, 2013, 12:12
And it works on my laptop at the office.  My guess is that this is a new host and not all the DNS servers know about it.
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: Poncke on January 24, 2013, 12:49
Same here, all images gone. Its freaky for sure. LOL.  8)
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: PeterChigmaroff on January 24, 2013, 14:46
Feeling a bit Sully?
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: leaf on January 24, 2013, 15:18
I think things should be fixed now.. but it might take an hour or two for everything to look normal.  The problem is on my end not yours.

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technical answer: I have had the site traffic running through cloudflare but just stopped using that service today - mostly because cloudflare also blocks the IP address of the user which makes it very hard to keep ahead of the trolls / spammers. ... so instead of cloudflare resolving the DNS's, my server host is now resolving them.  I had to make a few updates to the server host settings and messed up.  I think it is fixed now though but might take time for the proper settings to be propagated everywhere.

Let me know if things don't look better by tomorrow.
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: Poncke on January 24, 2013, 15:58
Already looking better Tyler !!!
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: leaf on January 24, 2013, 16:05
Already looking better Tyler !!!

ahhh good.  Hopefully I fixed it properly then.
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: Sadstock on January 24, 2013, 17:26
I think things should be fixed now.. but it might take an hour or two for everything to look normal.  The problem is on my end not yours.

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technical answer: I have had the site traffic running through cloudflare but just stopped using that service today - mostly because cloudflare also blocks the IP address of the user which makes it very hard to keep ahead of the trolls / spammers. ... so instead of cloudflare resolving the DNS's, my server host is now resolving them.  I had to make a few updates to the server host settings and messed up.  I think it is fixed now though but might take time for the proper settings to be propagated everywhere.

Let me know if things don't look better by tomorrow.

Here I was thinking Istock sent a DMCA notice on the icons ;D
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on January 24, 2013, 17:47
It's now fine for me too (US west coast)
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: Sandralise on February 11, 2013, 14:53
It's very weird but for some reason I can't put my links to Shutterstock or Depositphotos. It won't take and keep my username but does for all the others.
What am I doing wrong.  :(
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: Newsfocus1 on February 11, 2013, 15:06
It's very weird but for some reason I can't put my links to Shutterstock or Depositphotos. It won't take and keep my username but does for all the others.
What am I doing wrong.  :(

Just checking - both those require your user ID number not username. Made that mistake myself with SS link some time ago! Regards, David.
Title: Re: I've Lost My Avatars
Post by: Sandralise on February 11, 2013, 16:02
It's very weird but for some reason I can't put my links to Shutterstock or Depositphotos. It won't take and keep my username but does for all the others.
What am I doing wrong.  :(

Just checking - both those require your user ID number not username. Made that mistake myself with SS link some time ago! Regards, David.

That did the trick...thank you David! :)