# La sorgente di Avatar è stata modificata ai server Discourse durante la ricostruzione/agiornamento
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [18 Settembre 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416 "2015-09-18T00:42:10Z")
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### Author:  [@OnceWas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OnceWas)
#### Post date: [18 Settembre 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416/1 "2015-09-18T00:42:10Z")
I just rebuilt my development Discourse instance from 1.4b10 to v1.4.0.beta12, and the Discourse-generated letter avatars are now getting pulled from [https://avatars.discourse.org](https://avatars.discourse.org). For example, the URL for my letter avatar for administrator is now [https://avatars.discourse.org/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png](https://avatars.discourse.org/letter/a/f9ae1b/32.png).
On my production server, which is on 1.4b9, the avatar URL is /letter\_avatar/administrator/32/5\_fcf819f9b3791cb8c87edf29c8984f83.png
My API calls to my 1.4b12 server also show the discrepancy in the avatar URLs:
```
...
["users"]=>
array(2) {
[0]=>
object(stdClass)#630 (3) {
["id"]=>
int(19)
["username"]=>
string(13) "administrator"
["avatar_template"]=>
string(56) "https://avatars.discourse.org/letter/a/f9ae1b/{size}.png"
}
[1]=>
object(stdClass)#629 (3) {
["id"]=>
int(-1)
["username"]=>
string(6) "system"
["avatar_template"]=>
string(52) "/user_avatar/ask.twobydev.com/system/{size}/17_1.png"
}
}
["user"]=>
object(stdClass)#659 (29) {
["id"]=>
int(19)
["username"]=>
string(13) "administrator"
["avatar_template"]=>
string(56) "https://avatars.discourse.org/letter/a/f9ae1b/{size}.png"
["name"]=>
string(17) "Two by Fore Admin"
["last_posted_at"]=>
string(24) "2015-08-20T16:57:57.794Z"
["last_seen_at"]=>
...
```
Seems odd - and definitely not ideal for all involved - if all my letter avatars are getting pulled from Discourse’s CDN.
1.4b12:
1.4b9:
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [18 Settembre 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416/2 "2015-09-18T00:53:47Z")
It’s ideal, definitely ideal see
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimizing-letter-avatar-rendering/33082](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimizing-letter-avatar-rendering/33082)
If you don’t like the new default disable it in your site settings
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [18 Settembre 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416/3 "2015-09-18T00:54:29Z")
[quote=“sam, post:2, topic:33416”]
It’s ideal, definitely ideal see
[/quote]Yup - this is going to save your server a ton of CPU time…
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### Author:  [@OnceWas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OnceWas)
#### Post date: [18 Settembre 2015, 1:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416/4 "2015-09-18T01:01:08Z")
Just caught up on [the avatar discussion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimizing-letter-avatar-rendering/33082). Fascinating.
Thanks for the response, I’ll stick with the new avatar service, and modify the API handling in my code to work with the new URLs.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [18 Settembre 2015, 1:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416/5 "2015-09-18T01:52:22Z")
Yes the motivation was we noticed we were spending way too much CPU time generating avatars… the [avatars.discourse.org](http://avatars.discourse.org) is a free service behind CloudFlare CDN to speed up all Discourse instances.
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### Author:  [@OnceWas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OnceWas)
#### Post date: [18 Settembre 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416/6 "2015-09-18T03:15:46Z")
I had to disable the service temporarily, at least until I can figure out a reliable way to parse the JSON returned by the `/users/.json` API endpoint, to determine whether a user has provided their own avatar.
The value returned by `$json->user->avatar_template` is not in a consistent format. If the user has a letter avatar, the value is `https://avatars.discourse.org/letter/r/7cd45c/{size}.png`, but if the user has specified their own avatar, the format is `/user_avatar///{size}/35_1.png`.
I’ll need to figure out a way to determine when to append the domain name (we use the API to show avatars in Wordpress).
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [18 Settembre 2015, 3:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416/7 "2015-09-18T03:23:50Z")
> [@OnceWas](#):
>
> I’ll need to figure out a way to determine when to append the domain name
That is kind of trivial … if it starts with `/` prepend the domain name 🙂
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### Author:  [@OnceWas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/OnceWas)
#### Post date: [18 Settembre 2015, 3:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416/8 "2015-09-18T03:25:53Z")
When you’ve been starting at a console screen for 12 hours, things seem less trivial 😄
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [8 Giugno 2024, 12:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-source-has-changed-to-discourse-servers-on-rebuild-update/33416/9 "2024-06-08T12:46:03Z")
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