Forum profile picture mismatch  (Read 1672 times)

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JohnReiher

Forum profile picture mismatch
« on: 6 Nov 2015, 21:36:51 »
As you can see below, there's a mismatch between my Minecraft skin and the skin that shows up in my profile. It's the generic Steve skin, not mine. Now, I did recently update my skin, could it be an issue downloading it from the Minecraft server? I've checked in game and my updated skin is being used there.


ItsLawrence

Re: Forum profile picture mismatch
« Reply #1 on: 6 Nov 2015, 22:04:00 »
The skin we've got recorded for your account has been updated. The way the site works however means that images can take a few days to update sometimes.

I'll try to explain why this occurs in a way that is easy to understand:
The site servers keep copies of the original images (once they have been loaded) and stores them around the world to reduce loading speeds locally for you (and so does your browser to reduce your loading times and reduce bandwidth). Because of this it doesn't always ask the site to update what is actually shown in the image, it just shows the copy it has stored on a server nearer your physical location (thus keeping the loading much much faster and meaning we can provide much more content from our web server). (a content distribution network and caching for the technical terms) Because of this the images don't update immediately and depending on when they were last loaded they'll update at different times.

The image on your profile will eventually update to show your skin, it just might take sometime to do so. You can find out more about how your browser will cache images and other content; plus information about how to clear this at www.refreshyourcache.com. It will still take time for our server to physically update the image though.

JohnReiher

Re: Forum profile picture mismatch
« Reply #2 on: 6 Nov 2015, 22:20:08 »
Thanks Lawrence! That makes perfect sense.

ItsLawrence

Re: Forum profile picture mismatch
« Reply #3 on: 6 Nov 2015, 23:28:31 »
I've overridden the stored copies of your skin so it should now be updated if you check.


JohnReiher

Re: Forum profile picture mismatch
« Reply #4 on: 7 Nov 2015, 04:57:54 »
Thanks Lawrence!