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Quick Tip: Your Raveler Number
… when you joined us!
Finding your Raveler Number is a bit hidden on your profile page, so I thought I'd share how you find that today. To get to your profile page, hover over your profile photo on the upper right of the page and choose "view profile". You can also do this on the Mobile site by selecting your profile photo in the upper right and scrolling down to Profile. Once you are on your profile page, click "Raveler Since" and your Raveler number will magically appear. It will only show …
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Thursday Tip: Your Profile Page
… for your blog if you have one. Once that field is filled you’ll have the option to enter an RSS feed to link your blog entries to your Ravelry profile – we’ll show your posts in your profile and if you mention Ravelry projects we can link to a thumbnail of those, too (you can see an example on Sarah’s profile page).
I measure yarn in: Choose what units you prefer – metric or imperial. We’re still working on supporting this option everywhere across the site, but in places where …
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Thursday Tip: Upload a Ravatar
… picture, a little picture you use to represent yourself all over the site. Today’s tip is how to upload your own Ravatar.
Step 1: Get to your profile page.
To get to your profile page, click on your username in the upper right corner of the page where it says hiya!
Step 2: Edit your profile.
Click the link under your username that says edit profile.
Step 3: Add a picture
Once you are editing your profile, you’ll want to click in nearly the exact same place on a button that says add …
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Thursday Tip: Use your Instagram Avatar
Last week, Mary Heather shared how you can use Instagram photos for your project photos. You can also use your Instagram avatar for your Ravelry profile picture and it’s quick and easy to do!
1. Click your username in the upper right of your Ravelry page to access your profile page. Then, click “edit your profile”.
2. Click “add profile pics” and you will see the window here.
3. Choose “use your Instagram avatar”.
If you haven’t already, it will ask you to authorize Ravelry …
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profile page
… , and notifications of comments on your projects.
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Content Filtering/Options
Ravelry has some options for content, accessibility, fonts, appearance, navigation, cookies, and willingness to help with beta testing.
These are under Preferences at the profile page and under Settings in the dropdown menu from the Ravatar in the upper right corner.
They include the option to hide photos that are marked as mature content, options to reduce motion, prevent GIFs playing, select low …
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Settings - personalize Ravelry
no page? has some overlap with the profile page’s preferences - all overlap?
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export data
referenced in profile page & library page (export a list of what’s in your library) I don’t think there’s an overall help page for this MAKE ONE?
Your Profile
Your profile page contains account information and gives you the opportunity to share information about yourself with other Ravelry members …
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Welcome to Ravelry! FAQ
… turned off). If it meets the community standards, but you still don’t want to see it, you can use the “disagree avatar” feature to hide it in the forums (though it will still appear in some other places on the site, such as on their profile page).
If hiding someone’s avatar in the forums is not enough, there are technical means you can use as well. If you use Firefox as your browser, the extension Adblock can be used to block specific images. A few users have tried this with great success and …
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Getting started on Ravelry
… NotebookThe Pattern and Yarn DatabasesForums and GroupsMore Information
There are a few areas of Ravelry that you may want to learn about when getting started. We also have a Welcome to Ravelry video which may help.
Your Profile Page
Your Profile Page is what is seen by others on Ravelry. You can find some information about setting it up here.
Your Notebook
Your Notebook is where all of your information is kept. You can find and update your projects, yarn & fiber stash, patterns …
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Thursday Tip: Get Social
… sites with your Ravelry friends, it is also handy if you’d like your friends from your other sites to be able to find you with your other-site-usernames in the People search.
To add a social site, just click on the edit your profile link at the top left of your Ravelry profile page, then scroll down to the other social sites section and click on the add/change social sites link.
You’ll get a pop-up with a list of the sites we support for this feature, and you can fill your usernames on any of …
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Ravelry Resolutions
… picture on Ravelry helps other Ravelers recognize you across the site. It doesn’t have to be an actual picture of you! Profile pictures are definitely not required, but it is nice to have a picture on your profile page or attached to your projects and forum posts, sharing a bit of your personality on your profile and around the site. If you’d like some instructions about how to add a pic: we have tutorials on uploading a Ravatar (that’s Ravelry slang for Ravelry Avatar) and using your Instagram …
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Thursday Tip: Currency Conversions
… can know what a pattern will cost in their currency when it is listed in a different one. You can automatically see the price of a pattern in your currency if you set your location in your profile. To set your location, go to your profile page and click “edit your profile” then enter your location there. You can select only your country for currency purposes, but then you miss out on some other location benefits mentioned below. If you are uncomfortable listing your exact city or town, you …
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Thursday Tip: Adding Your Blog
… items and linking them from the blog posts tab there. Casey has a great post on this. If you added an existing blog and want to quickly link many items, I recommend using your blog posts page. You can get to it from the blog posts section of your notebook menu, or the link below your blog posts on your profile page.
Below each entry there’s a button to link it to items in your notebook. Additionally there’s an [x] to the right of each post that allows you to remove duplicates or posts you …
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Thursday Tip: Mature Content Settings
… the library, yarn stores, or who just prefer to not see pictures of more cheeky “mature content” patterns and projects: there is a new Ravelry setting in your profile that will allow you to hide these photos.
To opt in to this feature, just go to your Ravelry profile page and click on the “edit your profile” link underneath your username. You’ll see a content filtering section, and there you can check the box that says hide photos that may not be appropriate for …
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how to report a problem, blocking, ignoring, contacting Ravelry
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Reporting a spammy private message
When receiving a private message from a relatively new Ravelry account, you will see a “report spam” link. Please use this to let us know about spam.
If this link is not available you can still report the user via their profile page.
Are you looking for how to block a user in the forums?
Use the three dot menu under their Ravatar next to a post to hide the Ravatar, ‘disagree’ it so you see an image to remind you not to engage with that Raveler, or block …
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Tip: 3 Things to do on Ravelry in the New Year
… you got confused and thought Benedict Cumberbatch had really joined Ravelry 700 times…). If you prefer, you can always use a picture of something you love. (See above re: 700 Benedict Cumberbatches…) It’s definitely not required, but it can be nice to have a picture on your profile page or attached to your projects and forum posts. If you’d like some instructions about how to add a pic: we have tutorials on uploading a Ravatar (that’s Ravelry slang for Ravelry Avatar) and using your Instagram …
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You've got Flair!
Sherbert the Sheep trying on her Flair!It's Flair Week on Ravelry! Every year on April 1, Ravelers can decorate their profile pictures with hats and fun items that will show on their Ravatar on profile pages and when they post on the forums. Like last year, we're making it a whole Flair Week so that we all have some extra time to express ourselves. This year we added some new options: a phone playing Wordle, a sunflower, a whisk, a bike, and two kinds of hot sauce.
To add your flair, …
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Thursday Tip: Friendly Email Reminder
… have submitted some other help request to us.
To change your email address, or check to see what you have listed, click your username in the upper right of the page. Then, click “edit your profile” just below your username on your profile page.
Once there, you will see your email address listed at the top of the page. If the address listed there is not accurate, click “change”. That will bring up this window.
You can enter the correct email address here under “primary email address”. You …
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Tip: New Navigation Look
… sections of your notebook, or you can click right on the words (or tap a second time) to go straight to your projects.
Finally, your avatar is home to a dropdown with links to your profile, and to log out. As with the other dropdowns, you can click on it to go directly to a link – in this case your profile page.
We have been working really hard on the new navigation and we hope you love it. If you have any questions or issues, please let us know in this thread in For the Love of Ravelry …
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Tip: Hats and Flair!
… and when they post on the forums.
This year for the holiday, you’ll be able to choose your hat and even add some fun flair to your Ravatar! To do this, on April 1, go to your profile page by clicking your picture in the upper right of your screen.
Next, click on the “add some flair” button, and you’ll see this menu:
Dragging the little icons onto your picture and arrange them however you like. If you decide you don’t want something after all, just drag it back out. Click “I am finished …
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Tip: Find Local Yarns
… well as "gradient", "self striping", "handpainted" and things like that...
Anyway, I was poking at the yarn search today and I noticed something that I had forgotten about. Yarn spinners and dyers can link their Ravelry profiles to their yarn pages and there if you have a location in your Ravelry profile, you can search for yarnies (spinners and dyers) that are creating yarns near you. The search filter is at the bottom and it's called "yarnie within".
Try it out: within 30 miles, within 60 …
