Avatar suddenly changed

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  dlager · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 3:10 am

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  It seems I have a new Avatar today.

  I did not know that wordpress.com was going to completely switch to the gravatars.

  The Gravatar that you see here is the seldom used one I use when commenting with my self hosted blog with pictures of my hometown..

  May I please Have my old avatar back?
  How can I do this?

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  dlager · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 3:12 am

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  ok my old Avatar works in the forum.

  But if you look at my Blog…
  http://echopen.wordpress.com/

  for example, my gravatar shows up instead.

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  fredfood · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 3:18 am

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  mine is gone as well

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  fredfood · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 3:20 am

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  but apparently not on this forum. When I post here my normal avatar shows up. What gives?

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  dlager · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 3:55 am

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  Yes the origional avatar is working int the forum,
  But (in my case) my Gravatar is showing up at all my comments, my dashboard,,, the place where it says upload picture has changed as well.

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  teck07 · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 4:11 am

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  Look what I found in my profile
  we now have Gravatar options implemented
  in to are profiles I wonder if this has somthing
  to do with BuddyPress ?

  screen shot

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  icepickcometh · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 4:15 am

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  I’m having a similar problem. My Avatar got changed to a Gravatar (which I hadn’t realized I had ever uploaded), using an older image I used to use for my Avatar. I just tried updating this new Gravatar, uploading the same image as my now-missing Avatar. The change hasn’t happened yet, but I’ll be patient — I know it can take a little while. But I was surprised by the change and wondering what the heck happened to my Avatar.

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  teck07 · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 4:16 am

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  Screen shot of more Gravatar options

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  teck07 · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 4:21 am

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  How to Find more options for your Gravatar Screen shot

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  nickmomrik · Staff · Dec 6, 2008 at 4:23 am

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  Looks like we need to update the forums to use the Gravatar yet.

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  downcastmysoul · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 4:59 am

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  My gravatar/avatar changed back to my old one! Why did this happen? I was having computer problems so the picture for my “new” avatar was not saved. Hope I find it again.

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  downcastmysoul · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 4:59 am

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  Wow, just posted with the correct one…now, I’m confused.

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  nickmomrik · Staff · Dec 6, 2008 at 5:46 am

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  Forums should be using the Gravatar as well now.

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  icepickcometh · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 6:40 am

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  I just uploaded my old avatar image to replace my new gravatar image — it uploaded quicker than I thought. Was still surprised by the change and still don’t know where the old avatar went — are we just doing away with them, so Gravatar is the new Avatar? On the positive side, though (and though somewhat unrelated), I like the new Blavatar feature.

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  wordpump · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 6:41 am

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  Same thing happened to me. I’ll probably do what icepickcometh did

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  dlager · Member · Dec 6, 2008 at 9:56 pm

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  my avatar is now working uniformly.

  I did have to re upload my avatar @
  http://en.gravatar.com/

  This now comes with a rating system (G,R, X) etc which is cool.