Okay ... over 10,000 pix in the upload center was bogging things down. I enabled the feature to delete pix over two years old.

I'm now seeing some missing pix for avatars because of this ... sorry

Some of you may need to re-upload avatar pix as a result.

I may be doing a new version of the upload center that will help and allow people to have their own galleries ... but that's a few more rain-outs away

In the meantime, if your avatar diappeared, you now know why