# Selectable avatars

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/selectable-avatars/92656
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** new-feature
**Created:** [July 18, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selectable-avatars/92656 "2018-07-18T16:17:13Z")
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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2018, 4:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selectable-avatars/92656/1 "2018-07-18T16:17:13Z")

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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](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/5/e/5e74b4517d845936e221efbeed82179ce912a7d4.png)

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 avatars.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/a/7/a73906879f396db8a2fd1abe705449759c48640f.png)

You can either drag & drop up to 10 images at a time or click Upload Picture to browse your computer to select the images you want to upload.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/4/e43c7ddbcde61f3e563275d60e8f5731808c2d58.jpg)

If you want to remove some of the uploaded images, you just need to click on it.

> **Note:** Make sure you click ✅ after closing the modal to actually save the list.

After enabling the `selectable avatars enabled` site setting, two things will happen

- Newly created user will automatically be affected a random avatar from the list.
- Users will be presented with the same list to choose from whenever they want to change their avatar.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/0/e03f84088569e7367df31c426d265c5279e8306e.jpg)

> **Note:** existing users will keep their current avatar until they change it.

Enjoy 😻

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