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I display my combined flair on my profile page. But I noticed that it's broken. When I go to profile setting -> flair I see that all my flairs work other than the combined flair.

Here is my combined flair:

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  1. Meta flair setting page.

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  1. Stack Overflow flair setting page.

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My current profile:

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When I visit the image page directly for the combined flair, it gives an error:

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If it matters:

Browser: Chrome Version 92.0.4515.107 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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    What you get when you browse directly to your flair? (I see it just fine) Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 13:07
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    ohh.. most likely this no repro bug Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 13:09
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    If you can use VPN give this a try, good chance that you'll get to see your flair just fine. Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 13:17
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    Now also reported on MSO: Combined flair does not show. Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 17:50
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    Likely not a CDN issue, we did some initial investigation today and narrowed it down to an exception on a minority of our servers. We were able to reproduce the problem but we don't have an estimate on a fix yet.
    – Kyle Pollard StaffMod
    Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 21:43
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    any news? I still don't see combined flairs... Commented Aug 6, 2021 at 13:00
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    @LeonardoAlvesMachado Same here . Bug is not resolved yet.
    – 4b0
    Commented Aug 8, 2021 at 6:20
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    My flair died if anyone wants to investigate. It's an intermittent issue. Commented Aug 10, 2021 at 13:26
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    Any ETA? Its been 7 days without news about this... Commented Aug 11, 2021 at 0:53
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    Was this forgotten? It's been almost 2 weeks without news... Commented Aug 16, 2021 at 20:09
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    Yep - in fact, it was forgotten. The month is ending and no updates regarding this issue. Commented Aug 27, 2021 at 19:54
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    @Leonardo I hear your worries and I'm sorry that it hasn't been fixed yet. It's going to require a deeper dive to resolve, we didn't get an easy fix out of our original investigation. 😟 I don't have a timeline to share right now, but I can assure you that it's been on our team's bug backlog and won't be forgotten 🙌
    – Kyle Pollard StaffMod
    Commented Sep 3, 2021 at 15:57
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    Hi @Luuklag, I'm a new Product Manager on the team and spent some time reading through the post to understand the issue. The ticket is still in backlog but we currently do not have an ETA. In order to accurately reflect the current status of the post, I will be updating the tag to status-deferred for now as it requires further investigation into the minority of our servers that this affects. This issue currently does not currently fit within a larger initiative that we are working on but we will provide an update once it has been prioritized. Thank you.
    – tanj92 Staff
    Commented May 19, 2022 at 18:13
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    @tanj92 Thanks for the response, and glad to have you on the team! It's nice for staff to be more responsive to requests here on Meta, even if those aren't always positive responses: that there's a response means a lot. Commented May 19, 2022 at 18:59
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    You're welcome @SonictheSaveUkraine-hog. I appreciate your understanding and thank you for your continued patience.
    – tanj92 Staff
    Commented May 19, 2022 at 20:28

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Mine also is not working it seems. I noticed yesterday on my Arqade profile that it was not rendering (fixed now with my band-aid fix mentioned below).

I did notice just now however that if I take the link and upload it as you would when posting images on a post, it seems to pull it down just fine.

My flair's .png link "https://stackexchange.com/users/flair/8729580.png" does not render an image, but after uploading it via link it does:

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Of course, it doesn't properly navigate you to my SE user profile since the link behind the image is for the image itself.

peterh's .png link does not work for me either, but again, uploading it does.

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To top it all off, Luuklag's .png like works for me.

So a (temporary?) fix for this would be to take your .png's link and upload it to i.stack.imgur and then change your flair img src

<a href="https://stackexchange.com/users/8729580/timothy-g">
<img src="https://i.sstatic.net/M02q6.png" width="208" height="58" alt="profile for Timothy G. on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&amp;A sites" title="profile for Timothy G. on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&amp;A sites" />
</a>

I think though the only drawback to this is the image won't get updated as your reputation changes.

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    You can do this in Markdown too, if you prefer: [![Profile for Timothy G. on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites](https://i.sstatic.net/M02q6.png)](https://stackexchange.com/users/8729580/timothy-g "Profile for Timothy G. on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites"). You can add title/ hover text to any image by adding quoted text after the URL ([alt text](link "title text")).
    – zcoop98
    Commented Sep 28, 2021 at 15:52
  • I'm currently having this same issue (since yesterday?), however, trying to "upload" the image link does not work for me. I just get "Failed to upload image; an error occured[sic] on the server". Requesting this image results in a 500 response.
    – MrWhite
    Commented Nov 1, 2021 at 19:53
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I didn't understand from the descriptions in this thread, when I first read it, that the flair not rendering could also happen in the body of posts. But now it happened to me that on the same page half the flairs render and the other half doesn't. Screenshot take from The Community Teams @ Stack Exchange and how we work together.

screenshot of a post where half the flairs don't render

Using Windows 10, Firefox 94.0.1 (64-bit), 1920x1080, rev 2021.11.16.40766.

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  • Strange indeed. For me they all show up in the post. Are there any errors in your console?
    – Luuklag
    Commented Nov 17, 2021 at 10:47
  • @Luuklag yes it gives the same 500 errors already mentioned in the other answer and comments for the individual flair URLs that aren't working.
    – bad_coder
    Commented Nov 17, 2021 at 10:56
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    Here is how that link looks for me. A few are broken images.
    – Timothy G.
    Commented Nov 18, 2021 at 1:50
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Mine appears to work:

profile for Luuklag on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites

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    To me that shows the expected image @Shree
    – Luuklag
    Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 13:08
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    I update question :) refresh page, reboot pc , log out / log in, still same :(
    – 4b0
    Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 13:13
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    @Shree it's not you, or your PC, or your browser - something is broken on SE side. Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 13:17
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    @ShadowWizardWearingMaskV2 works for me across computers/phones and across browsers. Probably a location specific CDN issue again then?
    – Luuklag
    Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 13:19
  • @Luuklag yup, most likely. Commented Aug 3, 2021 at 13:31
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Mine does not work. Here is a direct link to it.

Possibly it is generated on request, and it is cached (both in the server and in the browsers). Until it does not expire from both caches, it seems working. The flair of the other answerer (@Luuklag) is working.

Extension: it gives 500 to my Firefox, but it works well with a wget.

Extension #2: by replicating the 'Cookie:' header of my Firefox to the wget, it gives 500. Very likely it does not work only with a working login. It also works from a private browser window.

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    For me yours works
    – Luuklag
    Commented Sep 17, 2021 at 18:23
  • @Luuklag Funny. To me it gives 500 to my firefox, but I still can download it with a wget.
    – peterh
    Commented Sep 17, 2021 at 18:30

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