The issue is present when logged in and logged out. My browser info: aboutmybrowser.com/sxYlerRo
Anna
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There may actually be an engineering reason we don’t show it here, but if not, I can file this for a really “rainy day”. Since it’s only in Preview on talk pages and doesn’t really impact the ability to see and send the message, it’s likely to be a lower priority one, though. Our wikiGnome engineers have a lot on their to-do lists so they have to prioritize based on what has the biggest impact on readers and editors - even when it means living with little things like this that feel less complete
I could be wrong, but it actually appears to be a really simple fix - something for an intern, probably.
If you look at the page source, you can see that a talk page is separated into different sections, per se - where each separate message is one section to itself (div class=“de”). These message sections have three separate subsections (de_header, de_comment, de_reply). The user’s avatar, the user’s name (x user said:), and the timestamp are all contained under de_user which is within de_header.
The code for sent messages and previewed messages is similar, and it looks like the “issue” here would be the lack of an image source (img src) under de_user. Present for sent messages, missing for previewed messages.
Anna
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Yep, I noticed the same thing when I looked - that’s actually what made me think it might be intentional, since the src was missing, rather than just not loading or appearing right. Might be for speed/performance, or something along those lines - but also possible I’m just overthinking that
Anyway, ease doesn’t actually affect prioritization really (or we’d spend all the time fixing easy stuff that doesn’t have a real user impact, hah). But I filed it yesterday, as an issue for a rainy day. Thanks!
