Black box with white x instead of Picture in signature.

[D_E_Bishop]

Lately I have noticed a lot of posts have the black box with a white x in it instead of a picture. It has happened a couple of time with my signature too.

Is something going on I should refer to a Mod.?

[2oldman]

I get an oops box.

[Old-Biscuit]

wa8yxm wrote:
Usually it means that you need a special plug-in to display that type of graphic and you do not have it,, OR: the plug in that does the job crashed.

At least you get an "OPPS" box, When folks post Photo-bucket links I do not even get that. Dropbox works well.

Guess you didn't read all of the previous post :H

[D_E_Bishop]

larry barnhart wrote:
I get the picture.

chevman

X2

Thanks 1492

[larry_barnhart]

I get the picture.

chevman

[1492]

larry barnhart wrote:
right click on the box and hit on show picture. this is what I do

chevman

Yes, try this. And see if you get a server error page?

The few times I've seen this has apparently been due to the forum servers not mapping the sig files correctly.

BTW, the servers were upgraded not too long ago which coincided with much of the issues the forum has experienced recently.

[wa8yxm]

Usually it means that you need a special plug-in to display that type of graphic and you do not have it,, OR: the plug in that does the job crashed.

At least you get an "OPPS" box, When folks post Photo-bucket links I do not even get that. Dropbox works well.

[pulsar]

The current forum software came online in early 2005.

Tom

[pappcam]

I'm sure it's because the message board software was cutting edge in 2002...

[larry_barnhart]

right click on the box and hit on show picture. this is what I do

chevman

[pulsar]

Corkey05 wrote:
I was just looking at my account for the same reason. Sometimes it's there, sometimes not. At least we're not alone. 🙂

There is a difference between the picture not being there and the picture is replaced with a "not available" box.

If the picture is totally missing, then so should be the entire signature. One "cause" could be the forum policy that in all forums, except Forum Technical Support, signatures will be displayed at most once on any page. It is possible to see you signature in a tread in one post and not another, if they are on the same page. Also, as in my case, for this post, my signature is turned off.

Tom

[pulsar]

D.E.Bishop wrote:
Lately I have noticed a lot of posts have the black box with a white x in it instead of a picture. It has happened a couple of time with my signature too.

Is something going on I should refer to a Mod.?

No need to notify the moderators.

In 2008, the forum lost all signature pictures. When the technicians corrected the issue with the picture server, the pictures would not show - black box with white x, black box with red x, blue box with white question mark, depending on the browser and OS. To restore a signature pictures members had to upload the picture again. Many did, a number has never done that. In the latter case, you will get one of the "picture not available" boxes. That explains some number of the black boxes with white x's you see.

Let's assume that the signature is properly on the server. The boxes with the x's or ?'s still mean the picture is not available to your browser at that time the page is displayed. There are a number of reasons why that may be. Among those would be the picture server is busy or offline and a slow connection timed out.

Tom

[Corkey05]

I was just looking at my account for the same reason. Sometimes it's there, sometimes not. At least we're not alone. 🙂