Hi! We think profile pics are very important for our forum to have the community feel we’re shooting for.
What are best practices for encouraging profile pics?
One complication is that we need users to go through an approval process before entering Discourse, and I don’t know if that works alongside social log-ins (which we totally want to encourage.)
Can’t claim this is a best practice, but what we’ve done is:
I held off on doing anything like #2 for a long time, but it’s proven to be far more effective than #1 alone.
I’ve been thinking about this too, especially for highly active/visible members. Getting them to have a nice avatar image would turn it into ‘leading by example’. I got stuck in finding an automated solution that would DM such users when they posted something. Instead, I think I’ll go with Dave’s solution for a while and see if a small effort can make me reach a tipping point here.
There’s already a reminder that pops up dynamically after you’ve replied a few times and are no longer TL0, and still carry a default avatar.
@tshenry can you test to verify that this is still working on try (remember to reset default TL to 0 before creating an account, as try is TL1 by default)?
I kicked off a new account on try at TL0. When I was naturally promoted to TL1, I received the following message which suggests to fill out the user’s profile:
Then as a TL1 user, I received the following notice when I opened the composer:
The full conditions for the notification can be found here:
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/lib/composer_messages_finder.rb#L66-L90
I opened a PR for one area I thought could use improvement. Currently the “visiting your user profile” link in the education message points to the base user profile page. The profile picture setting is at least another click and some scrolling down for a new user, it seems like it might be better to take the user right to it.
Here’s a tactic that others can use.
I customized the welcome message to say the following:
Choose one of these popular first steps to take next.
- Introduce yourself to our community,
- Add a profile picture,
- RSVP for an upcoming event, and/or
- Post a conversation starter on #public-square
You can also learn how to use our website features by starting an interactive tutorial or reading the new user guide.
Providing a direct link to the page where users can add a profile picture in the first message they received has helped. It’s a step that most people are familiar with given other social media platforms, so they were able to figure it out pretty easily.
Thanks this has been very useful to customizing the invite email templates, especially the general link for preferences and I was able to add one for Profile as we ask for a few custom fields.
And I really appreciate the link to launch the bot tour, it’s a great way to learn discourse by practicing.
Is it possible to require members to add some type of profile picture?
Hey Julie,
Nothing much has chanced since this topic was started – there are plenty of ways to encourage people to upload a custom avatar and there are a couple of different options to have default avatars but there is no out of the box solution for enforcing a custom avatar to be used – that would require a small plugin (not available on our Standard plan).
A way to do it without a plugin would be to use some external authentication database and have it require an avatar to create an account.
Generally what works for me is asking directly.
“Ehi man in our community we love to see our faces, I noticed that you’re writing a lot of interesting posts why not permit our people to see yours? I guarantee you that talking with a face is better than talking with aa letter in the alphabet.”
It worked 100% of the time
我们即将推出 Discourse 站点。我的用户习惯使用邮件列表平台，并且我已经配置了电子邮件设置，以便他们可以通过电子邮件回复和发起新帖子。
但与个人资料图片相关的是，我不明白的是，为什么有时用户会收到一封电子邮件，其中显示发件人的个人资料图片以及一个格式精美的“访问主题”链接（格式像一个按钮），但有时新消息的显示方式不太美观——没有个人资料图片，“访问主题”只是一个简单的超链接。
我认为这与帖子的长度有关。如果帖子很短，它看起来会更像一封普通的电子邮件。
我一直在使用不同的测试账户进行测试，看到的结果不同。我不明白为什么。我发送了一条测试消息，一些用户收到了显示个人资料图片的版本，如下所示：
但我的两个测试账户也收到了相同的消息，但没有个人资料图片。对他们来说看起来是这样的：
我告诉他们，我们是人类，我们喜欢看到（或直观地感受到）我们正在与之交谈的对象。我建议在我的社区中使用真实用户的照片作为示例，以防您不想放自己脸部的照片。部分照片、带特效的照片或漫画……都可以，但要有人味。
是否可以在用户个人资料图片字段中添加一个设置，使其成为仅限员工更改用户图片的特权？
或者至少，是否有办法隐藏用户卡片（自我）上的“更改图片图标”，并在公共用户卡片上重新启用显示给（.admin）或（.staff）？
无论哪种方式，这对于大型社区来说都不是很可行，主要是小型社区。
除非可以添加一个设置，将用户图片更改强制为需要员工批准。员工可提供批准/拒绝选项。
如果这是您需要的，最简单的方法可能是通过 CSS 隐藏该选项。
好主意，谢谢！
您是指 Customize > Text 中的 system_messages.usage_tips.text_body_template 吗？
另外，感谢您提供 /my/preferences URL，这样我就可以直接访问用户的个人偏好设置，而无需编写额外的代码来查找用户的特定用户名 URL。
我指的是
Customize > Text
system_messages.welcome_user.text_body_template
system_messages.welcome_invite.text_body_template
对吧？这太有用了。
