Custom avatars on forum

For the life of me I cannot find anything even in the source.

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Well now I’m pretty much sure that my trick won’t work hahaha
I’ll look into it again once I have a bit more free time (probably after my exams…)

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Well. Possible it is.

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How did you do it? I’m sure there’s something incredibly obvious that I’m missing, but I’m editing js right now to try to make it work. I’m pretty sure it’s the wrong approach, but it’s the only way I can see.

This secrecy… so unfair :smiley: Don’t want to waste an hour searching… If it was correctly enabled in the administration page, it would be really easy to use a custom avatar.

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wtf… I’ve already searched everything but it doesn’t matter, there are more important things xD

If it makes you feel any better, there really isn’t. After @Pac found his method he sent me a PM and we exchanged a bit of info. And while we basically ended up using the same method, we got there in a bit of a different way. We both agreed though that we wouldn’t call this an easter egg. To the point where I’m not even sure @jocelyn was referring to this method. So… you might be missing something obvious, but in that case, so did @Pac and I.

Of course it’s fair! Currently everyone who managed to do it put in the same work. :wink:

But if it’s not worth an hour to you, I suggest you don’t bother. It’ll likely take you a bit of time to find this.

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You’re right, @jocelyn can just activate it in the settings and make your efforts fade away :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

If our Storjling overlords decide that’s the right approach, I’m fine with that.:yum: In fact I advocated for that a few posts back already.

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yeah hopefully :smiley:
I spent 30 minutes searching, now I found a method I thought should work (at least according to config options on my local discourse installation) but looks like it doesn’t work… oh well. enough time spent on it for now.

oh wow, i stepped away and came back to this! OK everyone, Im not trying to protect Fort Knox or anyhting :wink: I just thought when I set up the forum that a little easter egg would be fun. It would be a cute surprise, but also a way for longtime users to bond. over a little mini-hack :female_detective:

Ive flipped the switch in admin settings, enjoy :joy: Its subject to the code of conduct, so keep it wholesome (no spoofing the company logo please!) Looking forward to seeing your smiling faces

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:smiley:
nice
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great minds think alike – stay tuned for updates :wink:

Thank you for making it simple for us, I did try to look for it but I didn’t have alot of time

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But we wanted to hear about the easter egg, not have a profile picture, the picture is much less important!

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I’m looking forward for all the crazy profile pics :slight_smile:

Did you use Gravatar @BrightSilence ?
I just searched avatar in the page source, even though I didn’t understand the code I figured that if gravatar was mentioned in there it must mean that they configured it.

EDIT: I do have say that it’s a bit less fun now that it’s enabled for everyone hahahahaha

Awesome. Though I wonder what the hack was. My idea was that maybe the site has a security bug that would allow me to ignore the admin settings.

Well it was quite fun to give it a whirl.

Nope, just circumvented the block on the custom avatar feature.
Kind of feel like that’s a bug in discourse that that’s even possible.

This exactly.

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Great! Many thanks :slightly_smiling_face: