# Updated image on gravatar, not seeing it update on site
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [16 בדצמבר, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357 "2016-12-16T15:12:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [16 בדצמבר, 2016, 3:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/1 "2016-12-16T15:12:16Z")
I updated the image for the email address I use on our private forum on gravatar about a week ago.
It looks correct when I check here:
> **[Gravatar - Globally Recognized Avatars](https://gravatar.com/site/check)**
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> Your email address becomes your passport to the digital world, empowering you with complete control over your personal data.
But It’s not updated on our private site yet.
I tried switching my profile to use the letter avatar and back again, but that didn’t do the trick.
Do I need to restart the server or something?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [16 בדצמבר, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/2 "2016-12-16T15:21:47Z")
Did you try hitting this button?
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [16 בדצמבר, 2016, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/3 "2016-12-16T15:24:18Z")
Yeah, I tried that. The image in that dialog did not change. I just tried clicking “Save Changes” anyway… haven’t seen it update yet.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [16 בדצמבר, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/4 "2016-12-16T22:30:49Z")
Can we verify that gravatar refresh button here is still working in latest code @techapj? More than one report of this that I’ve seen…
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### Author:  [@sudhirkhanger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sudhirkhanger)
#### Post date: [17 בדצמבר, 2016, 6:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/5 "2016-12-17T06:44:14Z")
Hi,
I also notice that profile image has not changed after updating my Gravatar.
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [17 בדצמבר, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/6 "2016-12-17T12:35:40Z")
The gravatar update code was broken and was [fixed 4 days ago](https://meta.discourse.org/t/unable-to-obtain-gravatar-on-profile-edition-screen/54162/3).
@mcwumbly can you repro this issue on latest Discourse version?.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [17 בדצמבר, 2016, 12:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/7 "2016-12-17T12:57:08Z")
Ah that looks like it’s probably it. I’ll last you know for sure after I do the next update. I was waiting for things to settle down a bit with some of the work currently going on (featured links, groups, ember), but I will update things soon.
**UPDATE** confirmed this is fixed in the latest version.
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### Author:  [@nivshah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nivshah)
#### Post date: [28 במרץ, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/8 "2017-03-28T20:34:20Z")
I’m seeing this behavior again both on my installation of Discourse and on this installation. I updated my Gravatar quite a while ago and have clicked the refresh button with no luck. I am running 1.8.0.beta8
**EDIT** Scratch that, it seems to be updating fine on this installation. I’ll have to poke at my own install.
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### Author:  [@pihentagy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pihentagy)
#### Post date: [13 בנובמבר, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/9 "2019-11-13T14:12:26Z")
Should I use this button at all? Can’t Discourse update it eventually (or just use gravatar directly)?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [13 בנובמבר, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/10 "2019-11-13T15:49:51Z")
Discourse will create a local copy of the image, so you should use this button if you want the Avatar to update.
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### Author:  [@pihentagy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pihentagy)
#### Post date: [13 בנובמבר, 2019, 5:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/11 "2019-11-13T17:40:14Z")
Let me say it from another viewpoint:
If a user sets to use gravatar, why on Earth would they **not** update their gravatar?
Why sould the _user_ take action, and not that is the default to update silently?
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### Author:  [@532910](https://meta.discourse.org/u/532910)
#### Post date: [20 במרץ, 2020, 7:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/12 "2020-03-20T07:49:20Z")
Just installed v2.5.0.beta2 and experience the same issue: after user creation it shows gravatar image, but can’t update it after image change on gravatar side. I see nothing in the `/var/discourse/shared/standalone/log/rails/production.log` pressing image reload in the user interface.
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### Author:  [@532910](https://meta.discourse.org/u/532910)
#### Post date: [29 במרץ, 2020, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/13 "2020-03-29T09:34:56Z")
Is there any update?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [30 במרץ, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/14 "2020-03-30T04:32:02Z")
Can we repro this @tshenry?
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### Author:  [@tshenry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tshenry)
#### Post date: [3 באפריל, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/16 "2020-04-03T00:04:02Z")
I can repro! The gravatar fails to update after I change it on [https://en.gravatar.com/emails](https://en.gravatar.com/emails) and select the refresh button on the Discourse user profile.
I also tried running `rake avatars:refresh` to see if that would do anything, but no luck.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [3 באפריל, 2020, 1:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/17 "2020-04-03T01:10:19Z")
~~We should investigate this, can you assign Friday @eviltrout?~~
But wait: let’s give this the weekend to see if it is a cache propagation issue. Can you set a topic timer @tshenry to refresh on Monday?
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### Author:  [@532910](https://meta.discourse.org/u/532910)
#### Post date: [3 באפריל, 2020, 8:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/18 "2020-04-03T08:12:00Z")
Jeff, if you mean HTTP cache so the answer is NO. More than a week has already passed for my attempts with no success.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [6 באפריל, 2020, 1:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/19 "2020-04-06T01:57:04Z")
This is meant to correct the avatar right away looking at the code:
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@kris.kotlarek can you repro this issue and fix?
Gravatar could very possibly be at fault here, caching something on their end for too long.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7 באפריל, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/23 "2020-04-07T22:01:38Z")
@kris fixed this by adding a random parameter to the URL.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [7 באפריל, 2020, 10:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/updated-image-on-gravatar-not-seeing-it-update-on-site/54357/24 "2020-04-07T22:01:41Z")