Setting avatar for 'social' (?)
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I'm having trouble setting my profile picture/avatar on the Vivaldi social. In the settings, it prompts to change it for my main Vivaldi account. And then even, sometimes, when i upload it, the photo I've chosen doesn't stay anyway after saving.
Has anyone else ran n into this or aware of what i mean? Any help would be greatly greatly appreciated! I could just be doing it wrong! Haha
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The issue has been fixed now. Please try uploading your profile pictures again.
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Try waiting for a while (5-10 seconds) after attaching the photo maybe? Only happened to me on the first time
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@xxjazmyn19x The avatar should be changed in the regular Vivaldi account settings. Login at
https://vivaldi.netOnce logged in, at the upper right of the screen, the current avatar (or placeholder) will be displayed. Click that, then click Account. The avatar is changed on the Profile screen. This is what is displayed when logging in from a desktop.
Then when you login to Vivaldi Social the next time, you should see the avatar.
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Same issue: I upload an image, it shows as the new avatar on the top left where I clicked to initiate the change, then it immediately resets to empty. Logout-login doesn't change anything, waiting a while doesn't change anything, disabling ad blocker and javascript blocker extensions and VPN didn't fix it, retrying from Firefox didn't fix it, retrying multiple times with different cropping options didn't fix it (saw another thread where cropping smaller did something, but it doesn't help in my case).
What else can I try?
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@zir4n It only allows .jpg and .png files for avatars (maximum size 5MB).
Ad-blockers should have no affect on the display of an avatar.
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JPG, 200-ish kB. Besides, I'd have expected an error to tell me if that was really the problem, but there's no error message, I even sometimes get the temporary green popup telling me my account info has been updated.
I retried a minute ago with several different JPG images, still nothing.
Ah, I just noticed this topic is in Android. I tried with Linux Vivaldi (and Firefox), not Android. (Maybe this topic belongs in the Vivaldi Social forum? Not clear if OP fixed their issue and if it was browser-specific, but I'd bet it wasn't.)
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@zir4n Are you seeing the new avatar in your account profile, but not on Vivaldi Social?
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@edwardp
In my account for exactly 1 second, then it resets. It never shows in Social. -
@zir4n Are you trying to upload the avatar through the Android browser, or on desktop?
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@edwardp
Desktop, Xubuntu 20.04. -
@zir4n I've asked internally, but am not aware of any issues at this time.
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OK, bug report = 80532606599.
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I have also struggled a lot to change the avatar of the social network, you have to follow many steps just to change a photo
I wish it was simpler xD
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@zir4n That is not a valid bug report number.
However, I found a bug report on the same issue, I have added a link to this thread.
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There's one more strange thing about it that I forgot to mention in the support ticket, which is that after my first attempt to set the avatar there was actually a change on the Mastodon side, i.e. my unset avatar switched from being a grey image of the little hairy Vivaldi mascot thing to being a grey generic silhouette of a person. So some info about my change propagated somewhere, just not everything.
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I have the same issue, after clicking ready when I crop my avatar, website for no reason refresh and avatar doesn't set. I think this is a server-side problem, not user. Tested on Android and Windows
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Ppafflick moved this topic from Vivaldi for Android on -
It looks like a bug, and I suspect it's related to the recent changes on the profile page. Someone will have a look at this soon. Sorry about the inconvenience! I'll let you know once it's fixed.
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I'm having the same issue - glad I found this forum thread!
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Interestingly - I tried a different photo and it worked.
So my avatar is currently a pink flamingo that I photographed at Paradise Park in Cornwall. I guess it's easier on the eye than my face!
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The issue has been fixed now. Please try uploading your profile pictures again.
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