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RE: 📢 Hivemind: Connection-Pool Exhaustion Fix Released
Hi Honourable Engineer @ety001, Hope you are well.
My Steemit profile & cover is not showing for some days. Maybe there are some bug with the image server, kindly check my profile and I think you will fix this soon.
Thanks.
Hi, I've identified the root cause of the avatar and banner display issue on profile pages.
Both the imagehoster service and hivemind are sensitive to the JSON type of the version field inside a user's posting_json_metadata. They only accept a numeric version (i.e. 2). However, some third-party Steem clients serialize this field as a string (i.e. "2"). When hivemind encounters a string-typed version, its strict equality check (version == 2) fails, causing it to fall through to an empty fallback — which means profile_image and cover_image are returned as empty strings, and the frontend hides both the avatar and banner entirely.
Quickest workaround: log in to steemit.com, go to Settings, and re-save your profile (even without changing anything). The official condenser frontend writes version as a number and will overwrite the third-party data, restoring both your avatar and banner immediately.
Going forward: hivemind will add compatibility handling to accept both numeric and string forms of the version field, covering accounts that were affected by third-party clients. Additionally, when a new version number is introduced in the future, the field type will be standardized to prevent this class of issue from recurring.
Thank you for letting me know about this.
I will try to follow your instructions. My profile picture is showing from today. But the cover photo is still not showing. So I am following these techniques you mentioned. So that it is showing. Thank you.