Profile image changing bug

[qwe_rfv (Avash Ahmadzade)]

if someone quote me, and I change my profile image after that, my profile image is not changed in the post that quoted me

AyProductions: Image changed ChirsWard: quoted from MIT App Inventor Community

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

I haven’t checked the code but I think the avatar is baked into the cooked post, so those posts will have the old avatar until/unless the post is rebaked.

I have hundreds (thousands) of posts here, if changing my avatar rebaked them all, I could cause a bunch of server activity by continually changing my avatar.

Also, this is sort of a feature. This way, the post records who you were when you posted, not who you are today.

[JammyDodger]

I think changing avatar does line up a rebake of the user’s quoted posts? I’m not sure on the schedule though.

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Edit: I am now not sure. I have been waiting patiently for it to magically kick in on my test site, but no joy yet. I could have sworn I’d seen it in action on a forum I’m not a staff member of, but looking back over a few oneboxed and quoted links from there over the last month it appears I still have an older avatar in those.

When I searched I found this, which I thought confirmed that it did line up a rebake for them, but I think I may have got confused:

Old user avatars in quoted text?

Changing the avatar already triggers a rebake of posts containing quotes, but it’s currently quite resource intensive to find and rebake all posts. So, it’s possible that some of them won’t be updated. Post revisions aren’t updated at all. I have plans to fix all of this when I’m working on improvements for user renaming/anonymizing in one of the next releases. It will require a new table that keeps track of all the places where a user is quoted, mentioned, oneboxed, and what not. If you want …

app/models/user.rb

[JammyDodger]

Just to round this off, it was a bug and has now been fixed.

FIX: Updating avatar didn't trigger a rebake of posts with quotes of the user (#27184)