Can you enable avatars for us please?

[KatieCruz]

To me, this is an accessibility issue. Avatars give a quick visual representation that a new person is speaking. Without an avatar, it's just walls of text with inadequate separation between posts. It requires more mental effort to read through and follow conversations.

[KatieCruz]

You could do avatars the way VoA does it, where they can only be added by an administrator.

Specifically, VoA has a dedicated subforum for uploading images. Users can create a new thread, uploading the images they wish to use for avatar and sig, or elsewhere on the forum. After a user makes the post, it is only visible to admins and moderators, who then handle the request.

[Jim Burton]

Our tech support will be looking at the possibility of avatar uploads in the next week.

This should help avoid the perception of a wall of text and improve readability/user retention.

[Jim Burton]

We allowed gallery avatar and a 300x300 max avatar for confirmed registered users (5+ posts).

Feedback on the feature welcome.