Reply To: I have created a bbPress starter theme with a phpBB look and feel

Hmm… not sure what’s going on here. Have you tested it on a default theme?

My avatars were not doing that the last I checked. I’m pretty sure they were auto-resizing smaller, and fitting in quite nice. But, I stopped using this bbPress theme before the last couple WordPress updates because it’s not responsive, and the default bbPress is. It’s possible something changed in the WordPress code to make it act different.

If you can make a child theme, you could try this to change the avatars’ size on the page where they’re squished with css:

bbp-topic-meta .avatar {
     width: 30px;
     height: 30px;
}