Inactive users updating photo mysteriously

[Hisashi]

Strangely, some users updated their photo at the same time, and none of them have logged in recently.

From what I could observe, all these users are connected with google.

 

 

[teraßyte]

Most likely it's the profilesync task updating their accounts automatically.

Edited August 25, 2022 by teraßyte

[Hisashi]

3 minutes ago, teraßyte said:

Most likely it's the profilesync task updating their accounts automatically.

I imagined that would be it, I just found it strange so many users at same time, as if it had accumulated.

[teraßyte]

The task usually updates several users at once when it runs. It does a batch of them rather than a single one. From you screenshot it clearly updated 5 members 2 hours ago, then 4 member 1 hour ago and finally 1 member 10 minutes ago (I guess it was the last user that needed an updated, thus the single-member batch).

Edited August 25, 2022 by teraßyte

[Hisashi]

Looks like there's still more to update 😅

[Marc]

If people are changing their profile pic regularly, they will always happen. You can of course remove that from the feed if you wanted

[Hisashi]

My preoccupation and if it had broken haha
Because it's still updating a lot of users, but you're saying it's common, so that's ok.

now

Edited August 25, 2022 by Hisashi

[Jim M]

Yes, if you recently changed a setting for profile photos then this task would of course update those related in batches.

[Hisashi]

I didn't make any changes

 

If there's nothing wrong, it's fine, thanks you anyway. 

[Marc]

As mentioned, you can switch those off if you wish to do so. If you go to System>Content Discovery>Themes by changing the 'Activity stream settings' items shown in the top right