Why do I have the cake next to my name?

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I just checked a comment, and I noticed there is a cake

Any idea ?

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That would be do to this plugin: Cakeday! Celebrating birthdays and anniversaries.

In brief, it is either your birthday or the anniversary for when you signed up on Meta.

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You bring up a good point though. It’s a bit odd that we don’t inform users whatsoever about what this thing actually means. It doesn’t even have hover text.

One suggestion: Make it clickable, and clicking it will open your user card. User card should say:

“Happy birthday!” or
“Happy Meta anniversary!”

under the username.

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No hover text is particularly egregious @tgxworld

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Hmm I thought I had this fixed long ago.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-cakeday/blob/master/assets/javascripts/discourse/components/emoji-images.js.es6#L17

Will check if something regressed here.

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Fixed the regression for missing emoji title and alt attributes

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/64b5c81843554c065bc4315bed295c65be4193ea

Add title attribute for poster icons in

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-cakeday/commit/489706e84807647854119871e43d3681750f5aed

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