Show original poster avatars on mobile

awesomerobot · November 25, 2020, 11:29pm

This is a simple theme component that shows the profile picture of the original poster (OP) on the mobile topic list, rather than the latest reply.

I turned this into a component because it’s a common request, but keep in mind that this isn’t the default because it means the profile picture shown next to a topic will rarely change and could make your site look somewhat stale (to contrast, last poster updates often).


	Github Repo	Discourse-Mobile-Op-Avatar-Component
	Install Guide	How to install a theme or theme component

thegurjyot · November 27, 2020, 1:22am

That’s exactly what I needed. Thank you so much for creating this.

littleviolette · February 7, 2021, 1:33am

This is neat! Thank you!

Is there a way to apply the theme on specific categories only?

Terrapop · April 5, 2021, 6:32pm

Thank you. Just installed. Was requested by many users in our community and just found your component.

thegurjyot · July 9, 2021, 7:01am

This component works great but, the user card doesn’t show on home screen anymore. Can someone check this?

thegurjyot · July 23, 2021, 10:24am

Any update to this? Small update to this can make this component perfect for mobile.

awesomerobot · July 23, 2021, 2:24pm

I’ve made an update, thanks for reporting it!

hhlp · October 22, 2021, 6:52pm

Nice component but I would like to have in both side mobile and desktop

Regards.,

hhlp · November 26, 2021, 7:18pm

Some user’s report a problem:

Already read topics not marked as such on mobile.,

Once you read a topic and all their replies, when you return back to the list of all the topics, the title is in light gray for those topics.

Works on Discourse app whcih is a wraper.
Doesn’t works in REAL browser like Vivaldi, Firefox and Chrome, on Android.

Regards.,

mattdm · November 28, 2021, 3:58pm

Just to make this more clear because I didn’t get it at first: what @hhlp is saying is that this theme component causes this bug. That’s not a mis-directed report about something unrelated.

marianord · January 11, 2022, 1:01am

This theme component seems to be broken with the latest version of Discourse. It simply shows no picture when on mobile and active. If you deactivate the component it starts showing the avatar from the last to respond.

awesomerobot · January 11, 2022, 7:51pm

Thanks for reporting it! I’ve just added a fix:

marianord · January 11, 2022, 11:33pm

Amazingly fast, as always. Thanks

Fma965 · May 12, 2022, 1:16pm

Hey, it seems this theme component doesn’t work well with the Who’s Online plugin

When i check my mobile view i get this

on desktop i get

As you can see on mobile it’s saying that F150Chief is online (represented by the green circle), but actually it’s the circle saying i am online but around F150Chief’s avatar.

Not sure if this is an issue that would need to be fixed on Who’s Online or on this Theme Component?

dodesz · May 13, 2022, 10:07am

I think this is because Who’s Online shows the online indicator on latest poster and not original poster. This is instead Who’s Online related request.

For now if you use original poster shows instead latest poster than you have to disable this setting from Who’s Online plugin. So if the latest poster is online in a topic than it will shows the indicator on topic list avatar even if the avatar is the original poster.