# Update Avatar on discourse.org/users/username page

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-avatar-on-discourse-org-users-username-page/14783
**Category:** Site feedback
**Tags:** discourse-hub
**Created:** [April 15, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-avatar-on-discourse-org-users-username-page/14783 "2014-04-15T21:04:45Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2016, 11:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/update-avatar-on-discourse-org-users-username-page/14783/7 "2016-01-08T11:42:26Z")

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> [@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…

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