Avatar Not Working

We are unable to upload an avatar and have it display. In the past it used to be you needed to use a gravatar but since the update to the front-end the messaging is gone. You can upload an avatar, it will display in your profile, but not in any message. Avatars continue to work for those created prior to migration.

Its displaying now - looks like there is some delay before it displays.

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Re-opening issue. Worked for my test account (https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=17774), but issue persists for another account (https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=17771).

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If I can be of any help (testing or something), let me know! o) Thank you for opening the issue.

Hi,

I can't remember if avatar uploading was allowed before the upgrade ? Seems not, because I can't see any old uploaded avatars on the disk. The feature is enabled in the admin, maybe we should disable it and only allow gravatar, like before ?

Yes it seems that there is some cache behavior involved: https://gitlab.xfce.org/www/forum.xfce.org/-/blob/main/viewtopic.php?ref_type=heads#L407

I created a test account (toz2) and the avatar worked (no admin access here), after a short delay (half an hour?). But tb24gl's avatar won't load. Not sure what the difference is. We ensured his avatar met the requirements 60x60, < 10Kb. I also tried to use the same avatar as the test one on his account with no luck.

I wonder if the issue exhibits itself like this:

• for users that had gravatars before (like my toz account) they still continue to work (not sure if its hooked up to gravatar in some fashion)
• for new users, accounts created after upgrade (toz2), the avatar upload feature works
• for existing users, accounts created before upgrade (testuser, tb0ne24), that did not have a gravatar, the avatar upload feature does not work.

I don't think alot of people will like using gravatar - just another service you need to register for for just an image. It would be nice if we could figure out the issue here and allow for regular image selection as avatar.

I just looked at my toz profile and it displays as no avatar selected, so it must still somehow be hooked up to gravatar.

Yes, gravatar still works. Links by email address.

The avatar image of my account (which does not show up), is linking to some gravatar URL instead of some image resource of the forum. I did not setup anything gravatar related though, so yes, there is some kind of glitch! o)

Ok, The gravatar support is a custom modification from ages, I simply ported it from the old forum: 2fddd7c5 .

That's why we can't mix local avatar and gravatars support I guess