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Posting under an alias used for Organised Play to demonstrate my discovery/issue:
TL;DR: A great number of profile pictures do not appear whatsoever if any filter is selected, including pictures that meet the filter criteria exactly.
Full Description:
I have recently discovered that the Profile Picture/Avatar Selection, available for accounts and aliases, do not appear to show the full selection of images when any of the filters (Gender, Race, Class, Iconic, etc) are used.
Obviously, that's the point; filters are meant to prevent anything not matching the filter from appearing. The issue is that the filters appear to not be implemented correctly, or perhaps pull from an older version of the profile picture database.
For example. When I originally made this alias, I looked for pictures of Estra. I'd searched originally for "Female, Human, Iconics", since there was no listing of "Spiritualist" as a class, and no text search capability. I found nothing that I liked, so I instead searched for "Human", and found nothing that I liked, then I instead searched for "Female" and eventually found an avatar image that was 'close enough', though it actually depicted the Outsider Munasukaru.
However, when you now go to the profile selection, selecting no filters, and sorting by date, you can find several images of Estra (such as the one I've now selected as my avatar) simply by going page to page and looking closely. Furthermore, they're even listed (if you hover over them) with her name, as well as "Gender: Female" and "Race: Human" and even marks her as an Iconic. But these images of her do not appear if you use any single one of these filters, or a combination thereof.
Simply by looking at the first couple of pages, then selecting any filter, I also find that the entire selection of images seems entirely different, rather than merely inappropriate pictures filtered out. As I suggested, I suspect (without knowing anything about the issue) that using any filter is causing the search to return much older profile pictures and ignore any that have been added in more recent times (weeks, months, years?).
I would consider this a usability hurdle, especially with the burgeoning community on the PACG forums of organised Play-by-Post sessions, of which aliases should generally endeavor to reflect a player's selected character.
I'd like to bump this thread; it's been 9 months and this is still an issue. More profile pictures (Starfinder-themed, primarily) have been loaded into the profile picture database, and using any filter will still kill off a huge portion of the overall available avatars.
For example: Sort pictures by date and go to page 8, there will be an image of the iconic slayer Zadim (From the "Feast of Dust" module). He is listed with the correct tags if you hover over him.
Then, select either the "Slayer" filter, the "Iconic" filter, both, or any other relevant filter ("Male", "Human", "Sarenrae", etc) and that picture will not appear whatsoever, nor will any other picture in the most recent 15 or so pages of images, maybe more.