Why my avatar changed back to default?

[tallero]

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My avatar just suddenly switched back to default after 10 years?
Am I about to be banned?

EDIT: it seems it was a temporary bug with Gravatar, which is now solved so I'm selecting one of the comments as the answer so I imagine the thread will be closed or something.

[Akkuma]

Same here. My avatar of 10+ years reset to the default around 21:45 UTC today. It's not limited to a few accounts either avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1 (mojombo) and /u/4 (wycats) now serve the same placeholder (ETag 2ae73e12cb1e…), while the Wayback Machine still had mojombo's real avatar on Oct 17.

[tallero]

thanks god it seems im not alone, I thought all of my public HTTP hosted work was about to go

[theamericanaccount]

in b4 youre both gonna be banned ahah

[xamidi]

Same, my Gravatar that I linked 13 years ago was unlinked and my profile picture reset.
There have been lots of weird updates to GitHub in recent years. It's almost like they are trying to make it worse.

Edit: My avatar just came back.

[james-dfns]

Same, 60% of the users of our Enterprise Org had their profile pic removed.

Also several areas in the Github UI are bugged, see 3 participants below:

[GeyseR]

I had a Gravatar linked to my account, but it is gone now. There is no option to reset to Gravatar, just a default picture with an option to upload a picture manually...
The Gravatar account is alive, email matches the primary email in github, though the letters capitalization is different.
The link worked for years, since I joined github, until this morning...

[GeyseR]

Seems to be fixed for me now

[rholak]

How many people used Gravatar vs. uploading directly? I have seen feedback from both cases.

[nouramaherelamin]

It might be related to Gravatar or avatar caching. Hopefully GitHub can clarify whether this is a temporary issue and restore the original avatars.

[ahosker]

Yes, just popped a new one on. It was realy old and just vanished.

[lhmouse]

Same. :(

[xamidi]

The avatars just came back, so I guess this was a temporary issue?

[tallero]

I'd say yes, I will mark the question as answered.