Forum avatar images broken? Am I the only one seeing the blank images?

[ScruffR]

No, you are not the only one seeing blanks and also not the first one to report it
It's a bug in the Discourse vesion currently used

What's up with so many users missing profile pictures?

It’s not a major issue but I noticed recently that many users no longer have profile pictures. It looks kind of odd that there are so many users with blank pictures instead of an initial.