Hi. Have faced issue with avatar update through discourse-connect. In sso payload is avarat_force_update = true and avatar_url = https://files.ekool.eu/ekool/202311/3011/00/-m-ae103b0bac1fa5fc3cb65217a0183ba7b2633edae6d4a4d3049a6245d4b49e46533c45dc7d0603fa1a02a9ee62f5a4afd3d945615a8f44ba3609cade095b5e5b.jpg Discourse UI sso payload [image] Discourse-connect overwrites avatar setting is enabled But avatar isn’t updated to provided url. Instead it is changed for something like placeholder Also no any logs/errors regarding avatar in server and verbose discourse-connect logs

Hello and welcome @Viktors_Vradijs :slight_smile: I think I saw a similar thing in this topic recently. With the change to the uploaded avatars allowed groups setting, you may need to make sure that your trust level groups have their visibility set to Everyone, Logged on users or Group owners, members and moderators. If you could try that along with a log out/login and see that helps?

Thanks for answer! Sadly but it isn’t the case. All trust level groups have logged on users visibility. Currently we are on version 3.1.4

Hmmm. :thinking: What do you have in your uploaded avatars allowed groups setting? Sometimes people pop ‘everyone’ in and I think that can cause issues. Changing it to ‘trust level 0’ instead can help.

Allow uploaded avatars is set to 0: new user

Oh yes, 3.1.4 won’t have that new version of the setting in. You could try updating to 3.2 now that it’s been released - 3.2.0: Major Release Just to check, did it use to work and then stopped, or are you setting it up for the first time now?

It wasn’t working from start. But will update version and see if something changes

Finally managed to update Discourse version to latest (3.2.1). uploaded avatars allowed groups setting is set to trust level 0 but issues still there (tried also to add everyone, but nothing changed)

@JammyDodger is there any way to fix the avatar issue?

Discourse connect avatar_url isn't working

Product Support SSO

wangya123 October 29, 2025, 6:58am 10

I’m having the same problem and am looking for a solution.

Topic		Replies	Views
Discourse connect sync_sso avatar update issue SSO rest-api	0	841	October 11, 2021
Update user avatar using a URL SSO rest-api	2	650	September 12, 2023
User avatar selection through API no longer working Development rest-api	16	2934	December 22, 2021
SSO Failing to Override Avatar SSO	1	870	May 9, 2022
SSO - custom picture not getting updated again once it is updated initially Product Support rest-api	7	363	January 1, 2025

Discourse connect avatar_url isn't working

Related topics