My coworker asked me about the blue ring around someone’s picture. How should I explain this feature and how its helpful to community members? They were just wondering what it means. Thanks! Emma

Original poster - Topic creator / first poster. (First avatar in the users list) Most recent poster - Recent replier / last poster in the topic. (Last avatar in the users list normally) When Original poster and Most recent poster are same then instead of displaying the same avatar twice in both first and last places it will be displayed in the first place with blue ring. So it simply means the topic creator is the last replier.

thank you so much for the explanation! Best, Emma

Anybody find this blue ring useful? Or clear?

Hi @schungx Now that I understand it, I definitely find it useful! :slightly_smiling_face:

[image] Vinoth Kannan: Most recent poster - Recent replier / last poster in the topic. (Last avatar in the users list normally) Hi. Can someone explain, which configuration option defines to show the most recent poster avatar as the last in the users list? I Couldn’t find how to configure it.

[image] Victor Lyubezny: which configuration option defines to show the most recent poster avatar Nothing. That is how it works by default.

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 20, 2017, 5:52am 5

It’s superior to duplicating the avatar twice, I’ll tell you that. Duplication is noisy.

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