Questions tagged [gravatar]
For questions about how Gravatars are fetched and displayed on the Stack Exchange network. This is not for general Gravatar support inquiries.
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We're regenerating all Gravatar identicons
We've recently discovered a vulnerability in our identicon generation process. To remedy it, we have changed how we approach generating them and regenerated all identicons. We do not have any ...
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My default user icon just changed, on its own, on only this site and the Stack Overflow main site (but not its meta one) [duplicate]
As of just a few hours earlier, the profile image icons for all of the 27 main sites I am a member of, and the network icon (i.e., showing in the upper right corner of my sites list), was
I've always ...
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Why have gravatars become reflectionally symmetric instead of rotationally symmetric? [closed]
Automatically generated gravatars, for SE users without their own profile picture, used to have 4-fold rotational symmetry. Some time recently, there's been a very subtle change and they now have ...
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Why is my identicon different from the one that shows up in Edit Profile > Change Picture > Identicon?
I don't know when this started, but now, when I go to edit my profile and look at the "Change Picture" menu, the identicon item's image is different than the identicon I actually get when I ...
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Why do so many users have no hash value for their identicon, resulting in the default identicon being used for each of them?
Note: When identicons were regenerated network-wide, all the "default" identicons were replaced — seemingly at random (e.g., a user on, say, 3 sites with 4 different identicons — including ...
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The new forced-frame-with-white-background causes issues to user avatars that contain transparency
It appears that the new design that has been rolled out recently forces a frame with a white background when displaying the user avatar at the top of the page.
I'm kind of forced to use gravatar to ...
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Area 51 avatars not displaying
For some reason, the Area 51 gravatars are just displaying as an error.
Example A:
Here we can see that for every single user the avatars are incorrect.
Example B: My profile on Area 51 vs my profile ...
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How do I get my Gravatar image?
With the news that the Stack Exchange network may lose access to your avatar image from Gravatar if your email address changes. Is there a simple way to copy the image from Gravatar?
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Profile image changes (Gravatar images won’t be recoverable after email change)
TL/DR: You won't be able to switch back to your old Gravatar image if you change your email (or have changed your email in the past). Please save and re-upload your Gravatar image if you want to keep ...
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Profile Picture not consistent across network [duplicate]
I was a bit shocked to find out my profile picture got somehow disappeared(?) in the other network. I checked on Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Exchange and seems like only in Stack ...
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Profile picture suddenly changed on various Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
My profile picture suddenly changed across multiple Stack Exchange sites.
My original (and desired) profile picture, , still shows up on Stack Overflow [link], my network profile [link], and some ...
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HNQ gravatar display bug [duplicate]
I was browsing the HNQs (Hot network questions) when I saw that some of the gravatars had different usernames, but the same gravatar. When investigating further, I found that in fact, they all belong ...
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Area 51 uses insecure avatar generation
Area 51 uses a different system for avatars than the rest of the network. While on every other site Gravatar URIs are salted, on Area 51 they aren't because it hasn't been updated (Area 51 uses a 2011 ...
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Gravatars not loaded for certain sources
There are some user gravatars that aren't loading properly. Searching through the list of New Users (just because it was easiest finding missing gravatars within that list) there seems to be a number ...
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Creating a new account in the network does not copy my existing Gravatar
I am learning LaTeX for fun and so I created a Stack Exchange account in TeX.SE to upvote all the useful questions and answers over there.
I notice my new account does not copy my Gravatar no matter ...
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