Hello, (This message is quite directed to the admin in control of the DevForums). I came to say that peoples profile picture on the Forum takes a very long time to update. Usually about a month. I know its to decrease lag on the DevForums because so many things on the DevForums are live updating (like replies). Could we have our profile picture update quicker? Example is lets say you made your avatar something as a joke with your friends, you head to the DevForums, well you don’t look very professional with a chill face peeking out of a strange UGC hat. Could we have the profile pictures update within a day or an hour or maybe even a minute. Just a small request that is for cosmetic reasons.
Thank you!
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I think you can update it by logging out and back into your account
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Ok, I’ll test this, it would still be better if you don’t need to log out though.
Can confirm, I had a serious avatar, wanted to change it to this joke, so I logged out and back in. Fixed it.
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Ok, good. Still I want to request to any panel members here for it to be automatic.
This is a problem with everything made with discourse. It’s just like a problem with the caching system. You would have to ask on discourse meta
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Yes, many Roblox programs (and other company programs) have this problem where it takes very long to update. I just made this post because your avatar picture gives off an impression, and that’s important (to me and many others) on here the DevForums.
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I’ve had this problem but sincerely, it isn’t a big issue. Just click on your profile and reload the page. Thats how I have it fixed.
Refreshing the page doesn’t work. You have to sign in and out and wait a minute. It would be a lot more convenient if it would work automatically is my point.
The forums is operated by Discourse, the forum software. They cannot tell when you change your Roblox profile picture, so it won’t update automatically.
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I found out if you log out then back in, it changes your avatar picture. I do that every time I change my avatar If I want it to change here.
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I’m aware, of that, (thank you to everyone who informed me about it). I was just saying it would be nicer automatically.
This is simply rate limits. ROBLOX has to make a request to an API to get the profile picture everytime you change the link. It is not easy to do this at such big scales.
Uhm, the reply system, like system, and more here on the DevForums are all live updating, if they can do THAT, then they can make your profile picture load quicker, or when people refresh their page.
What about the SSO method used here. Just log out and back in. Not too hard.
I already covered that. The point is making it somewhat more automatic. Refreshing the page would be a perfect example, I mean they can make likes and replies and whatever live, they can make a simple refresh update a small picture in the corner. Its just for convenience…
That is all Discourse. If you want live updates for your profile picture then request it on meta.discourse.org.
You dont understand. ROBLOX doesnt use APIs for devforum posts, or at least I think so. Even if they did, you do understand ROBLOX is pilling up costs to run APIs this fast?
Discouse doesnt handle profile pictures. ROBLOX has to edit the discouse to use ROBLOX APIs for that.