Why can't we see own "Profile Header" images? 🤔

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The container that has the background is collapsed by default if you’re viewing your own profile. If you click on expand here

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you’ll see the background.

It’s collapsed by default if you’re viewing your own profile because you usually care more about the information below the image rather than the image itself - especially on mobile.

If you’d like to override this behavior, you can add something like this in your theme’s common > header tab.

<script type="text/discourse-plugin" version="0.8">
  const discourseComputed = require("discourse-common/utils/decorators").default;

  api.modifyClass("controller:user", {
    @discourseComputed
    viewingSelf() {
      return false;
    }
  });
</script>
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