[Product Pull Request] bug: Profile image on user posts

[jmakowski1123]

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This is the Primary Product Ticket for the following community contribution: New feature that will allow course instructors to manage certificates.

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Related PRs

• feat: Profile image on user posts frontend-app-discussions#574
• feat: Profile image on user posts (palm.master) frontend-app-discussions#573
• feat: Profile image on user posts (quince.master) frontend-app-discussions#575

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[jmakowski1123]

There are a lot of open product questions that need to be addressed here.

• Is the scope of this PR limited to discussion forum posts?
• What's the background/context? What's the use case? Who has requested this feature and why? For example, is the request coming from learners? From instructors? From TAs? From moderators?
• Is the request to implement at the course level? At the instance or org level? Who makes the decisions about whether to implement it?
• What mechanisms will be in place to mitigate misuse of this feature? Ie, use of inappropriate images, etc. Did this come up in any of the user feedback?
• How does the feature work? How does a learner upload an image? Where does it happen in the workflow? Is there a full UX design?

[dyudyunov]

Hi @jmakowski1123

The user's profile image absence seemed to be a bug (while testing the Palm release) for us because it was present in the Olive release.

I just researched the feature changes history and found this PR where I believe the image was replaced with the placeholder. Unfortunately, I can't view the related Jira ticket and the PR description is too poor, so I don't know the motivation behind that change.

I think we could just close our PRs if our suggestion that this is a bug was wrong.

[jmakowski1123]

Let me do some testing on our new Quince branch.

[cassiezamparini]

@jmakowski1123 Has this been reviewed in Quince?

I've labelled this as a "bug" until we know more.

[mphilbrick211]

Hi all - any update on this one?

[dyudyunov]

Hi

Are there any updates on the issue?

[jmakowski1123]

I've looked at a bunch of live courses on edx.org, and they all have generic profile images. @ayub02 , can you confirm that this is actually the intended behavior for the discussion forums?

[mphilbrick211]

Hi @ayub02 and @jmakowski1123 - just checking in on this!

[ayub02]

Hi @mphilbrick211 ! Here's what i shared with Jenna. Please let me know what you think:
"Jenna, I discussed with the team. Profile picture feature has been removed from user profile due to requirements specific to 2U. Therefore, we removed profile pictures from discussion board long time ago (i think it was in late 2022 or early 2023).
We'll provide code review support if needed by community of Axim to display profile pictures on the discussion board. However, this change needs to be behind a control variable (e.g. waffle flag) so that it can be turned off for 2U instance."

[jmakowski1123]

Thanks @ayub02 . @dyudyunov Can this be developed behind a waffle flag? We can turn it on by default in the community release. If so, this has product approval.

[dyudyunov]

Hi @jmakowski1123

I think we could gate it using either a waffle flag on the backend or an additional config in the MFE env. The first option with the waffle flag seems better to me.

We'll plan further work on it

[ayub02]

Waffle flag sounds good to me. I'm ok with it enabled by default.