Using external images URL for Avatars

[NateDhaliwal]

Hi @norberto_cb , welcome to Discourse Meta!
This has been requested before, and this was the response given:

Profile Image from URL

We would always cache this kind of stuff locally, we avoid including inline images from 3rd party sources as a rule. Otherwise images randomly break, network performance can vary widely and we do not get an opportunity to optimise images that are expensive. Not strongly against adding a paste url somehow, but I do not want to clutter the interface.