This is what it looks like when avatar is disabled in the #kbin profile and images are disabled in the browser. The avatar is converted into the text address of the author -- which is a great idea. But then the HTML apparently uses a table or something and makes the left column as small as possible for the object. This means 1 char when in image is not showing. For people with really long addresses 1 post takes up a whole screen even if it’s just one line.
As an update, this should be fixed now https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/81 and looks to have been rolled out to this instance. The issue can still happen on user covers and magazine inline icons, which I hope to have a PR for soon(tm). realized it happens basically anywhere images with alt text appear so going to take more time auditing everything