Deviantart avatar problems?

Question

Okay, I'm trying to upload my new avatar and it won't load, it keeps going back to the old one.

YES, I've read the faq about it. YES, I cleared my browser's cache. Nothing happened. I also use Firefox. I don't get how to do this, though:

http://a.deviantart.com/avatars/*/**/yourusername.***

I don't get that!! What do they mean by "load the following URL in your browser"? And when they say "replace the ** with the second letter of your username", what does that mean? I mean, I get the 1st and last part, but not the 2nd part.

Can someone actually give me an example of what this url would look like? And where does the url go? I'm sorry if I sound harsh. ^^' But I've been trying to figure this out for a while now... D: I even tried contacting their help desk thing...

Never got an answer, and that was about a month ago.

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Answer 1

Yeah, this happens to me a lot. Wait a while, sometimes it will show up eventually. I also like to upload, do it again, and do it again, wait, then do it again. But I have a lot of patience.