I just pushed out a lot of internal changes to avatars that should really speed up avatar display on the site, as well as things like previews.

URL Change Avatar URLs are no longer http://avatar.subeta.net/slib/avatar.php/1.png, instead they are a much simplier http://avatar.subeta.net/1.png.

Caching When we moved servers last week, I didn't have time to set up dedicated avatar servers so we were running them off the basic web servers. That means decreased speed for the entire site, and for avatar loading in general.

Today I was able to get the avatar servers themselves running which includes much better caching in front of them which increases the site speed and avatar loading speed.

Avatar Changes Because of these changes, we can now target when your avatar should be cached. This will be improved over the next few days but right now you should see changes from the wardrobe take place across the site much faster and hopefully soon it'll be instant!

In Conclusion Just over the past hour after pushing these changes we're seeing almost instant avatar loads across the site, and on pages that are avatar heavy like news comments they're loading MUCH quicker than before, as well as the page itself benefiting from a much faster loading process.

Thank you Keith! :)

My sidebar HA (and also item avatar previews) is now broken :c

Thank you for the update! Excited to see progress on the wardrobe and avatar systems :)

Great! Just went to the wardrobe and yes, it did load in an instant ~ :D ~

Same for me

I did, twice now. Both still broken [edit] HA seems to have fixed itself but the previews still aren't showing for me

now i understand why is it broken. my computer doesn't know where to look for my HA ;P but this sounds like awesome news!

Thank you, Keith

Thanks for the update!

Thanks for the update, Keith! I also checked out the new wardrobe, and I'm so happy to see everything in place there, especially lowlights/highlights!

Thank you Keith!

awesome, ty

Thank you so much Keith~!!!

thanks :)

thanks :)

Cool. I did a hard refresh and it was fixed. Thanks Keith.

I haven't had my avatar on my sidebar for hours. I've just done a hard refresh and still nothing. What next? I'm loving the idea of not waiting for the new outfit to show on my avatar, thanks so much for that.

Thank you! I just tested this in the trade center and CW pawn shop, and the previews are loading very quickly in both now. :D This will be super helpful.