Topic: Can't upload pics
Motevia's photo
Fri 07/20/07 04:15 PM
I'm trying to upload a new picture to my profile from my computer and it starts off with the normal screen, but the box disappears and it just has the "upload photo" button. When I press that, it opens my file window and I click on the file, but I get an error message saying the file name is "undefined". What's going on?

no photo
Fri 07/20/07 05:16 PM
I am having the exact same issue...

mike's photo
Fri 07/20/07 05:24 PM
What browser and operating system are you guys using?

no photo
Fri 07/20/07 05:33 PM
IE... Windows (sorry not computer savvy) but I loaded some pics from this computer a few days ago and it was fine, then the next day tried again and it will not work. If the browse button does stay, after I get the pic loading, it goes to a screen that says website not available...

mike's photo
Fri 07/20/07 05:40 PM
OK thanks - do you know if it's Windows XP? We'll take a look and see if we can figure out what's going on...

no photo
Fri 07/20/07 05:49 PM
yep...windows xp.

Thank you, Mike. Much appreciated.

no photo
Sat 07/21/07 05:20 AM
yup.. XP PRO here and I can't upload any EITHER.. sad sad sad

kfloyd's photo
Sat 07/21/07 09:50 AM
I am also having the same problem. I can not get my photo on here either.

mike's photo
Sat 07/21/07 10:38 AM
OK folks thanks - we'll either figure it out or back out the changes we made recently. Should be fixed by end of day Monday at the latest. Thanks for letting us know.

jwaddy's photo
Sun 07/22/07 07:29 PM
hey mike, just a quick idea here. do you guys think you can design an html-based image uploader as a back-up plan? like, if you can't upload with our javascript uploader, click here.

it's awesome that you guys are working so hard at keeping the site running smoothly for everyone.

mike's photo
Sun 07/22/07 10:05 PM
Thanks jwaddy for the suggestion. We actually already have an html-based image uploader as a backup. People who don't have javascript enabled should see that version. The issue seems to be something more peculiar.

Our new uploader is flash based. So the people who are having issues have javascript enabled and are getting the flash uploader version of the page, but for some reason are unable to upload pics with it. It's been hard to debug because I can't reproduce it. I think worst case, we'll just back out the flash-based version on Monday and go back to the old html way. sad

If you have any ideas on what might be wrong though, I'm all ears...

Motevia's photo
Mon 07/23/07 11:07 AM
Sorry I haven't had internet all weekend. At school we use Internet Explorer and I'm not sure what brand of Windows it is, but it might be XP. That was where I was having problems. I haven't tried again yet today, but thanks for everything, Mike!

mike's photo
Mon 07/23/07 12:26 PM
OK we switched back to the old way of uploading photos. Can you all try again and let us know if you're still having any issues? Thanks!

jwaddy's photo
Wed 07/25/07 02:04 PM
the new html uploader fixed the problem on my mac. i bet it fixed the problems for windows users too.

no photo
Wed 07/25/07 08:59 PM
yep...I'm good to go.

Chris_m_holt_20's photo
Thu 09/20/07 02:34 PM
I can't upload a pic from the floppy drive of my computer to your site i don't get an error message it just freezes and i have to reboot my computer tried three times same resultt