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Sync Updated Avatars Across All Past Messages

Feature RequestUI KitsChat APIs

Currently, when sending a message, the sender object includes the avatar URL. At the time messages are sent, if the avatar is not yet set, the sender.avatar value is undefined, causing the default/initial avatar to be displayed. After updating the avatar, only newly sent messages reflect the updated avatar, while previous messages continue showing the initial avatar.

This is the current expected behavior, as the avatar is stored in the message object at the time of sending. However, from a user experience perspective, it would be more intuitive if all past messages from a user reflected the latest avatar update, ensuring consistency across the conversation history.

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  • Apricot Newt

    Issue is not only avatar. Whole user object is being cached at the time of sending message. So whatever is updated like name, avatar,… will only get reflected to the messages that gets sent after update was made.
    This should not be the behavior. No chat is following that. In group if user changes their name and avatar after doing some conversation then new messages will have new name and avatar and old messages will have old name and avatar and it will look like those messages belong to different users. Which would be huge mess.