# Gravatar refresh not working
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/gravatar-refresh-not-working/33381
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 17, 2015, 7:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gravatar-refresh-not-working/33381 "2015-09-17T07:21:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@ntadej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ntadej)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2015, 7:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gravatar-refresh-not-working/33381/1 "2015-09-17T07:21:17Z")
I recently updated my avatar on Gravatar. I know discourse caches these images so I decided to manually refresh the image but it’s not applied and now I only have placeholder 1px avatar.
What seems to happen:
When clicking refresh, a new image gets downloaded and avatar index gets increased, but my user still has same index in URL returned from server.
Example from my local instance:
My user’s avatar: `/user_avatar/discuss.tano.si/tadej/90/2_1.png`
When I inspect Gravatar in user settings: `/user_avatar/discuss.tano.si/tadej/90/17_1.png`
I experience the same here on meta and on my instance (latest beta).
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2015, 7:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gravatar-refresh-not-working/33381/2 "2015-09-17T07:27:42Z")
Sure, @zogstrip can you have a peek?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2015, 7:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gravatar-refresh-not-working/33381/3 "2015-09-17T07:47:34Z")
@zogstrip is this similar to the gravatar issue we are seeing with @purldator’s account?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2015, 8:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gravatar-refresh-not-working/33381/4 "2015-09-17T08:02:47Z")
I guess I’ll find out 😉
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gravatar-refresh-not-working/33381/5 "2015-09-17T17:44:58Z")
Ok, the fix is in 🐩
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/07e7b07b63caff59c94bff3b43889009010a03bb](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/07e7b07b63caff59c94bff3b43889009010a03bb)
And yes, @sam, it’s the same issue that is affecting @purldator’s avatar.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/gravatar-refresh-not-working/33381/6 "2015-09-17T17:45:01Z")