Hey folks, Is there a plugin that has a collection of avatars—graphic, cartoon-like ones—and that can randomly assign one to each user who has not yet uploaded a profile photo? I find the avatars with just the first letter of the user’s first name pretty boring. — Peter

You can upload photos to be random set. Check settings

Do we have a howto topic on this @rishabh? Maybe we should have one? :thinking:

Please do! I’d love to tinker with

[image] Selectable avatars megaphoneAnnouncements Avatars are a big part of anyone’s online identity. Discourse already supports 3 options when it comes to avatars: based on the first letter of your username, your Gravatar or any images you want to upload. [image] But what if you want to provide your users with a limited set of avatars to choose from? It’s now possible thanks to the “selectable avatars” feature! As an admin, if you click Edit next to the selectable avatars site setting, a modal will pop up and ask you to start uploading ava… We already have a detailed #feature:announcements topic for it, thanks to @zogstrip - should I edit it slightly and move it over to #howto? [image] peterakkies: Is there a plugin that has a collection of avatars—graphic, cartoon-like ones—and that can randomly assign one to each user who has not yet uploaded a profile photo? @P2W, have a look at this post to set up a randomly-assigned, default avatar set.

Randomly assigning an avatar as profile photo

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peterakkies (Peter Akkies) October 2, 2020, 1:53pm 3

Cool! I didn’t know that. Thank you.

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