22.11 Toggling In Sidebar doesn't affect Avatars being shown Toggling In Chat toggles for Chat and Sidebar Gary Wang in Neochat room confirmed same issue on master and mentioned showAvatarInRoomDrawer config option is unused.
Can confirm this is busted.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat/-/merge_requests/725
Git commit 67f88416f1a448f291d3513d4e7d47feb837f084 by Gary Wang. Committed on 27/12/2022 at 10:13. Pushed by nvrwhere into branch 'master'. Use the correct config option for 'In sidebar' M +1 -1 src/qml/Page/RoomListPage.qml https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat/commit/67f88416f1a448f291d3513d4e7d47feb837f084