# Custom Local Avatars

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-local-avatars/9463>\
**Category:** Blog\
**Created:** [8월 29, 2013, 6:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-local-avatars/9463 "2013-08-29T18:48:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [8월 29, 2013, 6:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/custom-local-avatars/9463/1 "2013-08-29T18:48:52Z")

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One of the most requested features in the last few months is easily custom avatars. Although Discourse has always supported standard Internet-wide Gravatars based on the account email address, there were some long-standing concerns: Some people simply don’t like Gravatar, for whatever reason, though as a WordPress company they are (at least in my opinion)

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This topic is for comments on the original blog entry at: [Custom Local Avatars](http://blog.discourse.org/2013/08/custom-local-avatars/)

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