Profile image changing bug

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if someone quote me, and I change my profile image after that, my profile image is not changed in the post that quoted me

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AyProductions: Image changed ChirsWard: quoted from MIT App Inventor Community

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I haven’t checked the code but I think the avatar is baked into the cooked post, so those posts will have the old avatar until/unless the post is rebaked.

I have hundreds (thousands) of posts here, if changing my avatar rebaked them all, I could cause a bunch of server activity by continually changing my avatar.

Also, this is sort of a feature. This way, the post records who you were when you posted, not who you are today.

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I think changing avatar does line up a rebake of the user’s quoted posts? I’m not sure on the schedule though.

Edit: I am now not sure. :slightly_smiling_face: I have been waiting patiently for it to magically kick in on my test site, but no joy yet. I could have sworn I’d seen it in action on a forum I’m not a staff member of, but looking back over a few oneboxed and quoted links from there over the last month it appears I still have an older avatar in those. :thinking:

When I searched I found this, which I thought confirmed that it did line up a rebake for them, but I think I may have got confused:

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Hello you all,

In my case I find that lots of users in my community change their profile image but it doesn’t stick. It seems as if the change shows for some days but then it goes back to the previous image.

Any ideas?

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How is your Discourse hosted? By us? Self hosted? other provider?

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Hi Sam, thanks for helping out. Our community is hosted in another provider (third party).

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I see as in not “digital ocean” self hosted, but a different company? If so then I recommend contacting the provider.

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Correct. OK, I’ll contact and let you know how it goes.