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Has anyone seen my unicorn?

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Has anyone seen my unicorn "Fluffy"? It has green fur and loves apples. It was last seen-...


Since a few days back, the user avatar is missing on my profile:

missing unicorn

And I've seen the same on other user's profiles or posts too. Not sure if this is related to the unicorn generator (...the Unicode?) or to user avatars in general.

The unicorn gets generated just fine below posted Q&A though. It's the same across the whole network. Should I blame caching or something?

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The service we use to generate user avatars - Unicornify - is temporarily down. I've reached out to the person who runs the site, but he as of yet hasn't gotten back to me.

Hopefully this'll be fixed soon. If not, we might have to consider either switching services or running Unicornify ourselves (it is open-source, after all). Sorry for the inconvenience!

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Self-hosted is better? (1 comment)
Self-hosted is better?
Canina‭ wrote over 3 years ago

I would be in favor of a self-hosted solution. At presumably low but possibly nonzero cost, it removes an external dependency, let alone one that has had problems at least twice since Codidact got started (I remember seeing a similar issue with avatars once before); and albeit a small issue, especially for privacy-conscious users it's one less information-leaking request to an external service for every page view. (The set of avatars requested can potentially suggest which page is being viewed.)