# Import profile from other communities
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-profile-from-other-communities/56852
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 3, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-profile-from-other-communities/56852 "2017-02-03T09:24:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2017, 9:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-profile-from-other-communities/56852/1 "2017-02-03T09:24:31Z")
I think that a good feature to include to Discourse would be to import your profile (with images, settings, etc.) from other communities.
For example, I’m an user of Thunkable Community - [http://community.thunkable.com](http://community.thunkable.com), and now I’ve registered in [Meta Community](https://meta.discourse.org), but I don’t want to reconfigure my profile because I’m a lazy person, or I have no time. How could I import my profile?
A suggestion for this feature could be to download a .json file and upload it in your preferences screen, so your profile data will be loaded
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2017, 11:48am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-profile-from-other-communities/56852/2 "2017-02-03T11:48:45Z")
You can already use gravatar to have the same avatar everywhere.
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### Author:  [@barreeeiroo](https://meta.discourse.org/u/barreeeiroo)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-profile-from-other-communities/56852/3 "2017-02-03T13:48:49Z")
But your configuration and background images not, you have to upload it manually and see it
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-profile-from-other-communities/56852/4 "2017-02-03T16:06:55Z")
We’ll probably get to this some day, but it’s not on our immediate roadmap:
> [@Revitalizing the Discourse Hub](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029):
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> The original basic idea of the Discourse Hub have a reserved @username across all Discourse instances, so when someone sees @username on any Discourse forum, they’ll know it is (probably) you! … seems like kind of a bad idea in retrospect. Why? Well, if you run your own Discourse, and your name is @david, you probably want to be called @david, even if some other David reserved the name in Feburary 2013 here on meta. It is your community, after all, who are we to tell you that you can’t use y…