– Where to add padding between a larger avatar on the question page and the description and answer containers? – In your theme CSS.
Try un-checking this
I cannot check your tags issue cause I cannot access your ask page. If category links are shown like that then this means category plugin is not installed or not active.
Since 2.4, it can be viewed in Activity feed. Also all other subscription like category, user can be seen in activity feed.
Check here: https://github.com/anspress/anspress/blob/master/includes/common-pages.php#L41
i had the same issue. buddypress avatar overwrite anspress avatar functionality. so if you upload avatar from buddypress profile, then your avatar would display in anspress.
Try our recent commit, https://github.com/anspress/anspress/archive/master.zip along with recent tags extension: https://github.com/anspress/tags-for-anspress/archive/master.zip