# Letter avatars broken in 1.5b5?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [19 Noviembre, 2015 21:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814 "2015-11-19T21:05:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [19 Noviembre, 2015 21:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/1 "2015-11-19T21:05:59Z")
We’ve just upgraded to 1.5b5(33) and letter avatars aren’t working.
They link to:
```
/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/l/a6a055/45.png
```
Our site setting is still:
```
/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/{first_letter}/{color}/{size}.png
```
While I notice that avatars here on meta are being served from [avatars.discourse.org](http://avatars.discourse.org)
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@mrosas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mrosas)
#### Post date: [19 Noviembre, 2015 21:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/2 "2015-11-19T21:22:37Z")
Ditto for us.
Looks like there were changes that went in recently impacting this code here:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/88f1a8f0b12a4bc61e6b521d0156012b4fd9aec9](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/88f1a8f0b12a4bc61e6b521d0156012b4fd9aec9)
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### Author:  [@bweissman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bweissman)
#### Post date: [19 Noviembre, 2015 21:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/3 "2015-11-19T21:31:21Z")
At least until they fix it, changing the external system avatars URL to “[https://avatars.discourse.org/v2/letter/{first\_letter}/{color}/{size}.png](https://avatars.discourse.org/v2/letter/%7Bfirst_letter%7D/%7Bcolor%7D/%7Bsize%7D.png)” fixed the problem for me.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [19 Noviembre, 2015 21:32 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/4 "2015-11-19T21:32:12Z")
Looks like this requires a launcher rebuild to resolve, avatars are working once again.
> [@bweissman](#):
>
> At least until they fix it, changing the external system avatars URL to “[https://avatars.discourse.org/v2/letter/{first\_letter}/{color}/{size}.png](https://avatars.discourse.org/v2/letter/%7Bfirst_letter%7D/%7Bcolor%7D/%7Bsize%7D.png)” fixed the problem for me.
Presumably grabbing the latest build via rebuild either creates or grabs local copies of these images. All you’re doing above is using the versions hosted on another site.
@sam if a beta upgrade isn’t going to work correctly until a rebuild has happened, isn’t it a bit silly to prompt the user with an upgrade button in the back end?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [19 Noviembre, 2015 21:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/5 "2015-11-19T21:33:55Z")
Confirmed, you must rebuild to get the fix, I will see if I can add a big red warning on `/admin/upgrade` page
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [19 Noviembre, 2015 21:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/6 "2015-11-19T21:34:35Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> I will see if I can add a big red warning on /admin/upgrade page
That’ll do it. Thanks!
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### Author:  [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [20 Noviembre, 2015 01:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/7 "2015-11-20T01:38:18Z")
The avatars breaks in development mode though since nginx is not running on top of the rails web server. 😁
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [20 Noviembre, 2015 01:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/8 "2015-11-20T01:52:35Z")
Yeah I noticed that, maybe we should add a route for it, mainly for dev @mpalmer
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### Author:  [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [20 Noviembre, 2015 01:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/9 "2015-11-20T01:55:57Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> Yeah I noticed that, maybe we should add a route for it, mainly for dev
Would that be a route for `/letter_avatar_proxy` to feed back into the internal avatar generation code? I think that’d be reasonable.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 Febrero, 2016 09:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/11 "2016-02-13T09:57:01Z")
I think we sorted this out a while back, closing, flag to reopen if still an issue.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [13 Febrero, 2016 09:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/letter-avatars-broken-in-1-5b5/35814/12 "2016-02-13T09:57:05Z")