The profile picture shown on mobile next to the preview of the pinned topic creates the impression that this person wrote what is shown in the preview.
I think it’s misleading to show the one, who posted last next to a text posted by someone else
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Users are discussing a UX issue where the profile picture displayed next to pinned topics on mobile creates a misleading impression — it appears as though the last poster authored the pinned content, even when they didn’t. Moin highlights this confusion with a screenshot and notes that avatars weren’t shown next to pinned topics before, possibly added in this commit without considering the context of pinned posts. Canapin shares a workaround using a theme component that moves the avatar to the right, visually distancing it from the topic’s content and signaling it represents the last poster rather than the original author. JammyDodger suggests another theme component that swaps avatars for all topics and proposes it could be forked to target only pinned topics. Moin clarifies that since it’s not their forum, they can’t implement fixes themselves, and points out the issue affects users like Rob Nicholson, who are shown next to content they didn’t write. The core concern is visual clarity and accurate attribution in the mobile topic list for pinned topics.
I also don’t like it, so I use this theme component on both my forums:
It sets the avatar on the right, so it looks like way less a topic’s author, and rather the last post author.
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There’s this theme component that swops them over for all topics, but you may be able to fork it and target featured topics?
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Since it’s not my forum, that is not my choice. Like in the screenshot I posted, where it is not the choice of Rob Nicholson to be shown next to the text of about the Community Building category, which he did not write.
Some time ago there was no avatar shown next to pinned topics. Maybe it was added with this commit. I’m not sure the problem for pinned posts was taken into account.
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