im making a thread so the rest of you can pressure lucid into doing it

im sure you're all familiar with changing your avatars and nobody else sees the new avatar and some people see two different avatars at once and it's kinda lame i guess

there's a simple solution that doesn't require clearing your cache every time some random changes their avatar, and it's called timestamps. how do they work?

when you update an avatar, the url stays the same. mine is https://em-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/avatars/217853_original.jpg

but if you add a timestamp via query string when someone updates their avatar, the browser will recognize it as a new file and load it from the server again instead of using a cached copy. https://em-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/avatars/217853_original.jpg?123456789

just add a query string to avatar urls with the last updated timestamp and avatars will always be up to date while still cached since that update, the way it's supposed to be