Randomly assigning an avatar as profile photo

[peterakkies]

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

[R_X]

You can upload photos to be random set. Check settings

[peterakkies]

Cool! I didn’t know that. Thank you.

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

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

[P2W (Mike Riddick)]

Please do! I’d love to tinker with

[rishabh]

Selectable avatars

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 avat…

We already have a detailed #feature:announcements topic for it, thanks to @zogstrip - should I edit it slightly and move it over to howto?

@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.