A relatively trivial query & apologies if already discussed elsewhere, but the small circular shape of the avatar icon seems illogical when source images for personalising avatars tend to be rectangular or square - didn’t seem to be a problem on the old site, a square template. Quite a few avatars here are hard or impossible to make out, partly due to shape & partly the tiny size.
Is it a fixed Discourse feature, or can the template be bent to our will rather than the other way round?
If you click on the avatar you get to see a larger version of it.
Don’t know if they can be made larger. Larger avatars would consume more space on the screen though …
Yeah I doubt even if we were able to switch to square icons that I would set them any larger than the space the circular icons take up. As Robin pointed out you do see the larger icon on several other views as well.