TL;DR: I’m having trouble understanding how avatars are accessed on S3. I’m in the process of moving my Discourse over to AWS, where all the rest of my websites are. I’m a huge proponent of CloudFront, not just as a traditional CDN, but as a Varnish-like front-end with multiple origins. I like to r…

Yeah, that’s because we proxy them in order to deal with ‘unknown’ size (the “120” in your URL) and whatnot. https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/controllers/user_avatars_controller.rb#L75-L120

How are avatars stored and accessed?

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DanielMarquard (Daniel Marquard) November 18, 2016, 9:56pm 5

When I enable S3, newly-updated avatars still use the same URL scheme, for example: https://critcola.com/community/user_avatar/critcola.com/d3/120/676_1.png

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How are avatars stored and accessed?

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