Hello there! I’m using this plugin to sync user from a django site, but the avatar is sync only on creation. If user change it in django, it is not sync in discourse. In fact, in Discourse managed_authenticator.rb, the retrieve_avatar return early if the user already have a custom avatar setup: …

Yup been battling this one myself on standardizing avatars. I had hoped to use a custom picture claim from our IdP (Entra) to include the URL to a avatar host that doesn’t have the issue w bearer token auth for download_avatar_from_url like the generic graph.microsoft one does Testing though seems …

I just realised I should probably post this here but I submitted a PR for this: FEATURE: managed auth can override avatars by lewisakura · Pull Request #34123 · discourse/discourse · GitHub

Avatar is synching only on creation

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pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj) September 2, 2025, 4:50pm 5

Thanks for the contribution @lewisakura, your PR is now merged!

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Avatar is synching only on creation

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