Avatar source has changed to Discourse servers on rebuild/update

codinghorror · September 18, 2015, 1:52am

Yes the motivation was we noticed we were spending way too much CPU time generating avatars… the avatars.discourse.org is a free service behind CloudFlare CDN to speed up all Discourse instances.

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