1:1 room avatar not always updated with user's changes

[her001]

Description

In a 1:1 chat with no room avatar set, it appears that Riot will sometimes update the icon that is displayed with the room to match the avatar of the other person in the room, but not usually. This results in a lot of my rooms having an icon that is the generic letter on a flat colored background, even though the user has set an avatar for themselves since they have been invited.

Steps to reproduce

• Invite someone to a new chat (without setting a room avatar)
• Have that person change their avatar after joining
• The room icon will usually stay the same as before it was changed

I expect for the room icon to update to the same as the person's avatar, for as long as the room does not have an avatar of its own. Unfortunately this might be harder to track down, as sometimes this does work as expected, but in my experience it normally does not.

Log: not sent (I don't think it would help)

Version information

• Platform: web
• Browser: Firefox 53.0.3
• OS: Arch Linux
• URL: riot.im/develop and riot.im/app

Possibly Related Issues

#3256 If you add a 3rd person to a room and then remove them, avatar doesn't return to 2nd person

#3768 allow the user to prefer no more than one avatar per person in a room

[her001]

I just realized the pattern here. Those rooms that haven't changed both had tested integrations (adding bots then removing them later).

This issue is a duplicate of #3256 and can be closed. Sorry!