Ironfoot wrote:
You might not want to know this... When logged out, I'm seeing old avatar thumbnails. Logging in brings up the new thumbnails, logging out reverts back to the old.
Okay, I think I've resolved this. It seemed bizarre to me that avatars were old (and stale cached) in the logged-out case, but not in the logged-in case.
The root cause turned out to be the fact that logged-in users get a different database query than logged-out users, mostly due to the complexity of topic tracking (i.e. tracking the last post you read so you can jump back to the first new post later on). I had put the newer avatar-fetching queries in the block of SQL for logged-in users, but neglected to even notice that there was a parallel block for logged-out users.
Once I added the avatar queries there as well, everything went back to being sane and rational.
Thanks for reporting this.
