[Stephen Ross]

Just created a new account. When changing the avatar, I receive the following error message.
“Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /home/buddypress/public_html/wpmu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/6877665. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”
Is the image too big?

Second point : why menu item color is changing once used ? Is there a message behind this. The menu becomes quite difficult to read. I have the same behavior on my website.

[Terry Williams]

Convert your picture in to JPG, GIF or PNG in order it can be accepted.

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[Stephen Ross]

@Terry Williams,
I am afraid it is already a jpeg image.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Is //home/buddypress/public_html/wpmu/wp-content/blogs.dir/ writable by the web server?

[techguy]

Does BP.org support the upload? I think you have to do a gravatar if you want an avatar, no?

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

What, he’s talking about this site? Thought that was Stephen’s server!

If you’re referring to buddypress.org, we’re aware and are working on it.

[Stephen Ross]

@Paul Gibbs,
As I have the problem on your site, I don’t even try on mine.
I understand you will fix the upload issue.
Thanks

[WraithKenny]

Any reason this site (buddypress.org) doesn’t use gravatars?

[TW]

Subscribing to thread as I created an account just minutes ago and also get the upload failed error ON THIS SITE (buddypress.org) when trying to upload a jpg image for my avatar.

`Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /home/buddypress/public_html/wpmu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/6902189. Is its parent directory writable by the server?`

[modemlooper]

Create a gravatar for the email on your account here and it will show up.

[WraithKenny]

@Modemlooper, the whole point of my question was that I have Gravatar’s for every email I own, and not a single one shows up on this site, no matter which email I use here. ITS BROKEN (kinda).

In case anyone’s interested in the fix, only use lower case letters for your email address. I propose that the theme author or who ever’s in charge of it puts a filter on the function that calls gravatar to convert the string to lower-case, as some (like me) prefer to type their names will Capitals.

[tombutler]

ive spent more than 15 mins trying to setup my avatar here but I didn’t bother to read the instructions on the profile page “….If there is a Gravatar associated with your account email we will use that, or you can upload an image from your computer.”

Thanks for pointing that out