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CW-191: Allow to set/change user avatar #1398

Open anter69 opened 6 years ago

anter69 commented 6 years ago

Seemingly there is no option to upload an avatar, unless you link a github (or other?) account. Thus, loads of people show up with the same, (rather dull) default avatar (not even a random one, like e.g. github). And you can't change your existing avatar, either.

Additional question: if you link multiple accounts (github, fb, linkedin, etc), which avatar will be used?

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Fonzie-byte commented 4 years ago

Sorry for the necropost but I think this is still a much wanted feature so is there any more info on this, if not, when will there be?

mhombach commented 4 years ago

I just signed up because a friend told me about codewars. Not beeing able to upload/change your user picture is really stoneage and i would have expected better from a platform that is about "coding". Also, the "wiki" is no real wiki (also no search option there) and the docs too can't be searched through. Please respond to this feature request, since this should be mandatory to launch such a website. If you are not even planning to bring this core-feature in, please tell all the people here about it, so we can decide to stay on codewars or to leave it.

emsert commented 4 years ago

If you link your GitHub account, the profile picture will be updated automatically in CodeWars.

mhombach commented 4 years ago

If you link your GitHub account, the profile picture will be updated automatically in CodeWars.

Did you even read the question? Your comment does not make any sense.

Nagyhal commented 4 years ago

I really don't want to link to my GitHub account or anything like that.

I'm using Codewars to learn languages I have zero experience with and where the concepts are quite unfamiliar to me. Languages I'm not ready to start a fully-fledged project in. I like looking at other warriors' code and seeing what they've done better; I would never, ever want to advertise the headache-inducing horrors I've written there as my own creations.

Can you please let us change our avatars in the name of fuuuuun without bringing all this demoralizing employment-market stuff into it? Everything else has been great, so far. Thank you!

hobovsky commented 4 years ago

I won't address the lack of the feature, because I think we all agree that it would be nice to have the possibility to set profile image directly on CW. All I want to say is that I am not sure if your concerns related to linking a GitHub account are valid: you do not need to have any project there. You do not need to create any repository and submit any code, neither public nor private. Your GitHub can be totally empty, except profile image. Code you submit as solution to kata does not end up on GitHub, and is not visible on your GitHub page. Your solutions are visible only on kata solution page. I am not really sure what part exactly you mean as "demoralizing employment-market stuff", because as far as I get it, CodeWars uses GitHub profile only as an authorization provider.

As I said, I think that setting a profile picture directly on CW would be good to have. I understand that you might not want to create GitHub account or link with it, and that's OK. I am just not sure if I get your arguments against it right.

Regards

Fonzie-byte commented 4 years ago

@hobovsky I still think it'd be a weird kind of workaround to create a brand-new GitHub account, upload a profile picture to said account and link it ALL just to upload a profile picture to Code Wars. This really should not have to be necessary in my opinion.

hobovsky commented 4 years ago

I totally agree on this part.

nemo-6 commented 3 years ago

I would like to upload/change my picture as well

kazk commented 3 years ago

Sorry for not providing any information. This is planned and will be added when I add support for uploading images for kata descriptions and comments.

I agree this should be possible. But I don't consider this a "core" feature for Codewars because it doesn't prevent you from training. If the lack of this feature makes you leave (making all other values meaningless), I don't think you'll be happy with us anyways.

It's just really awkward because avatars are only partially supported by linking other accounts. Some kind of default avatar is necessary because of this. Obviously something generated and unique would've been a better choice.

If I was making Codewars, I'd honestly rather not support it than the current partial support.

Again, I agree this should be possible and it's been planned. I'd like to work on it in the near future, but can't provide any estimates yet because I have other tasks with higher priority.

Additional question: if you link multiple accounts (github, fb, linkedin, etc), which avatar will be used?

  1. GitHub
  2. Twitter
  3. Facebook (will be removed because they've changed the required permission)
  4. Default

in that order.

Some days, I don't have much tolerance for arrogance and it bothers me enough to keep ignoring the commented issue. It causes unnecessary mental overhead. I have no idea how some people can assume they know better than the maintainers who have spent way more time thinking about the project. There are usually complicated reasons behind things and it's not as trivial as it seems from the outside. This isn't the first issue, so I'll consider blocking him and locking issues if it happens again.

TruLie13 commented 3 years ago

If you link your GitHub account, the profile picture will be updated automatically in CodeWars.

My Man!

shahul01 commented 2 years ago

If you link your GitHub account, the profile picture will be updated automatically in CodeWars.

My Man!

Lookin' good

ittsmattox commented 2 years ago

I would love to be able to upload a profile photo -- sorry didn't totally read thread, but if linking Github is the route..That would work as well.

memark commented 2 years ago

@kazk Thank you for your ongoing work!

Is this still planned to be implemented?

kazk commented 2 years ago

Yes

VanessaGreene commented 9 months ago

Hi all, this request has been escalated to our engineering team, we hope to have an update for you shortly.

VanessaGreene commented 8 months ago

Hi all, I’m excited to inform you that profile photos are coming soon. To help us launch this feature, we are also designing a series of profile avatars for you to choose from, and we want your help!

We want you to help us design 2 of these new avatars, which will be available for all Codewars users.

Fill in this form before February 16, 2024, to have your design used on Codewars. Please ensure that any artwork submitted is your own and not someone else's work or the work of an AI.

snowkluster commented 2 months ago

Is there any release date for this feature ?