I proposed two related patches in D25683 and D25685, both of them obsoleted by: D25687.

After a small database inspection, it seems that uploading the picture causes:

(Oh sorry avivey, I have not noticed your priority action - I agree)

I do not (yet?) understand the use case of this task.

Indeed reported from a Wikimedia user about Wikimedia Phabricator.

In T15671#14420, @avivey wrote:

The feature was removed for performance and private concerns. I thought Gravatar was alread dead.

Maybe this can be done as an extension:

• Abstract the "profile picture provider"
• Allow an extension to write a Gravatar one

There are currently 2-3 sources, so maybe there is some abstraction:

• pokemon-style silhouette
• Character with background (generated from username)
• Upload Picture

The feature was removed for performance and private concerns. I thought Gravatar was alread dead.

We can continue the discussion in Task T15556 - thanks for reporting

Is there a Task about this? if not, feel free to open that in Diffusion at least. I'm interested in seeing this fixed.

Ouch sorry renamed again since I forgot the discussion. Still an annoying bug and found your question.

Yes. The trade off would be user experience. I have absolutely spent 15+ minutes waiting for a reset email on sites after having either typo’d or put in a different email address from the one I signed up with.

If I've understood correctly,

In T15091#9775, @RhinosF1 wrote:

Can this be made public?

Can this be made public?

Closing for now as "we're ok with this", and there was no interaction on this ticket for a while.

I wonder if this is related to not being able to use the Diffusion repository file auto-complete when not logged in even though the repo is publicly accessible.

(Raising to "HIGH", until we figure out if there's a security concern).

The text says "The user who uploaded a file can always view and edit it.". I checked the DB, and the author field for the relevant file is null.
That implies that this upload code is bypassing some security checks...

Thanks for this Task