In a discussion titled ‘Flair not allowed for automatic trust level groups?’, slackmoehrle reports that while new groups allow flair assignment, existing groups (named after trust levels) do not — despite being able to assign flair in group views. pfaffman clarifies that trust levels are not actual groups, even if they appear similar. slackmoehrle confirms the naming confusion and reiterates the issue: why existing groups can’t have flair while new ones can. awesomerobot explains that flair for automatic groups (like trust levels) is not currently supported because they lack features of manual groups — notably, they can’t be set as a user’s primary group, which is required for flair display. This feature has been proposed before here and may be implemented in the future, but it’s not a current priority. As a workaround, a theme component exists to add trust level flair: Trust Level Avatar Flair.
When managing a group, I see this:
However, notice this group view that allows flair…why don’t I have this?
As seen in this post: Trust-Level Avatar Flair - #41
I’m running the absolute latest Discourse version
Update: I do have this if I create new group, just not existing groups.
Flair exists for groups, not trust levels.
Though they seem the same, trust levels are not groups.
I see that. Our groups I guess are named trust levels. I’ll edit the question
It still remains. Why can’t I assign flair to existing groups but I can if I create new groups?
Flair for automatic groups has been discussed before (https://meta.discourse.org/t/proposal-flair-on-avatar-for-trust-level/81250/5) and is something that will likely exist at some point in the future, but it isn’t a current priority.
The main reason is that automatic groups lack some of the features that manually created groups have:
If you’d like to add flair to a trust level, there is a theme component that can do it.
