# Add crop feature for avatars

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-crop-feature-for-avatars/70979
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 28, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-crop-feature-for-avatars/70979 "2017-09-28T22:21:31Z")
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### Author: ![alltiagocom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alltiagocom/32/492709_2.png) [@alltiagocom](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alltiagocom)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2026, 6:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-crop-feature-for-avatars/70979/4 "2026-08-25T18:37:59Z")

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Almost 10 years later and this is still not implemented, which is a bit weird, because most platforms allow this.

Any plans to do it? Any plugins/components out there that allow this?  
Not all users want to add this extra step of editing an image beforehand. I like to remove all the friction, as much as possible, and this is one of them for sure.

There’s another request for this:

> [@Avatar Cropping](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-cropping/24534/2):
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> yeah this is a great idea! because discourse crops it exactly into the middle, some of my users loose details that would have been on either side, which they get anoyed about!

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