Many member profile photos broken

BigEd 2020-09-16 19:16:30 UTC #1

I notice a number of member's profile photos are showing as broken images aka 404. For example @ken.boak is affected. Also @lolotobg, @Wells and @metaprogrammer even though they've been active relatively recently.

Folknology 2020-09-16 21:55:59 UTC #2

Ok let me look into this..

BigEd 2020-09-17 08:09:42 UTC #3

Thanks! It's looking like it might be people with no profile photo, who get a 'letter avatar proxy' with their initial.

Folknology 2020-09-17 08:43:14 UTC #4

I had a warning today about download remote images limit being exceeded, not sure if it is connected so I doubled it just in case also enable copying to local for these to prevent image breaks, not sure if this will help or not..

BigEd 2020-10-22 21:47:32 UTC #5

Just a thought: as an admin you could 'impersonate' each of the affected users, and upload a profile image. You could take that image from another discourse installation, such as here.

Folknology 2020-10-23 07:42:37 UTC #6

I have done a few of them (hundreds are broken) will add more over time

BigEd 2020-10-23 09:03:29 UTC #7

Cheers Al - certainly looks better without broken images.
I think another dozen would clear up the entry-point pages like:
/users
/top
/new
/categories

Obviously, neither urgent nor important!

Edit: I notice the replacement URLs are not visible in my post above. Let's try this:
https://forum.mystorm.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/r/a4c791/120.png
can be replaced by an upload from
https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a4c791/120.png