I'm having this same problem.

tried in 2.2.9 and edited member.php instead of members.php .. getting this error:

Parse error: parse error in /home/ironlife/public_html/member.php on line 1081

oh there is no members.php in 2.2.9
well this hack is for 2.2.6
if i get time ill work on a upgrade for 2.2.9, but ive been very busy, sorry for the late responses

thnx for the reply :)

np
whats the line that the error was on, and a few lines above + below it?

Ok, this seems to cure the problem in 2.2.8 where it says every single remotely hosted avatar is not a valid jpg or gif but the avatars don't show up in the postbit (threads) for some reason.

(At least they don't for me)

Anyone have the fix for this?

did you apply the templates correctly?

it should be

$post[avatar]$post[avatar2]

iirc

if that doesn't work, try this
$post[avatar]<img src="$post[avatar2]">

the first one doesn't work for me (btw, I don't think the template changes are in the read me file).

and won't the second one leave a broken url image for everyone who isn't using a remotely hosted avatar?

This.. "$post[avatar]$post[avatar2]" makes the url of the image show up where the avatar is supposed to be... :(

try
<img src="$post[avatar2]">

or

<img src="$post[avatar]">

there weren't template changes because it changes to $post[avatar] in the code