Where'd you go? [server blip; fixed]

And we're back! Did we lose anything? Or anyone?

Sorry. I had to go out for an hour and accidentally took AW with me.

I'm sorry, but that avatar is horrendous and freaking me out! Please, for the love of my stomach, change it.

LOL, what's really funny is I've had two people here tell me how much they love my new avatar. Object lesson on how we can't please everyone with our art?

Really, I have a thing about eyes and people poking them about. I'm going have to avoid threads with your name in them.

One look was enough!

Chasing the Horizon said:

LOL, what's really funny is I've had two people here tell me how much they love my new avatar. Object lesson on how we can't please everyone with our art?

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Three people. I love it!

dpaterso said:

There was a server problem. Fixed now.
-Derek

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And you expect me to believe that?

cray's been angry ever since someone stole his battery avatar and gave him a Hello Easter Bunny replacement. I'm sure he had something to do with it.

Everyone in the chat room decided it was Derek's fault.

This outage won't affect the Mega Millions drawing, will it? #theimportantthingsinlife

mirandashell said:

Really, I have a thing about eyes and people poking them about. I'm going have to avoid threads with your name in them.

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Look in your User CP, isn't there an option to turn off avatar and/or pic loading? It's meant for peeps with low bandwidth (#dialup #56k) but it should work for this reason too.

Does that mean I'll lose everyone's avatar?

Hmmm.... I'm sorry Chasing but you are going to have to go on ignore. I really can't bear that avatar.

Thanks Derek.

Haggis said:

cray's been angry ever since someone stole his battery avatar and gave him a Hello Easter Bunny replacement. I'm sure he had something to do with it.

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I'm still pretty sure it was my fault. The forums went down 2 minutes after I left my house and came back the moment I got home. When I came back, it was clear that I was so important all of AW stopped posting while I was away.

Then I see this thread and have my bubble burst, yet again.

benbradley said:

Look in your User CP, isn't there an option to turn off avatar and/or pic loading? It's meant for peeps with low bandwidth (#dialup #56k) but it should work for this reason too.

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If you have Adblock softwear, you can block an avatar you don't like by right-clicking it and selecting the proper options. Though, I used to have big hairy spider avatars and I'm pretty sure every arachnophobe on AW had me on ignore.

As always, we blame Dawno.