The Libravatar Problem Nobody Warned Me About (And How I Finally Fixed It)

I didn’t expect something as simple as setting a profile picture to turn into a full debugging session. But that’s exactly what happened. It started like any normal onboarding task. I had just set up my Fedora Account System account, everything was working fine, and I thought, “Let me quickly update my profile picture and move on.” Simple, right? I clicked “Change Avatar.” I was redirected to Libravatar. I logged in. I uploaded my picture. Done. Or at least, that’s what I thought. I went back to check my profile… and there it was, the same default avatar staring back at me like nothing had changed. At first, I assumed it was just a delay. Maybe caching. Maybe I needed to refresh. I refreshed. Nothing. I logged out and back in. Still nothing. That was the moment I realized this wasn’t just a small glitch. There was something deeper going on. The Loop That Made It Worse While trying to figure it out, I ran into another issue, the login loop. At one point, instead of smoothly logging in,