# Default avatar from Name & not from Username

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-avatar-from-name-not-from-username/21571>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Octobre 28, 2014, 5:52 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-avatar-from-name-not-from-username/21571 "2014-10-28T05:52:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\
**Post date:** [Octobre 29, 2014, 2:40 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/default-avatar-from-name-not-from-username/21571/4 "2014-10-29T14:40:05Z")

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Maintaining a long term fork is generally discouraged.

Probably you could do this as a plugin or by submitting a PR that adds this option as a Site Setting.

I would start with the latter as its probably easier and likely a pretty small change (though I could be wrong).

Whatever you learn in doing so will be helpful in developing it as a plugin if it’s not accepted into core for some reason.

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