I would like to have something other than a letter for the person watching my library. When I need to reboot or do maintenance I need to try to figure out who to notify from Now Playing... but is it Jimmy, Jeff, Jerry, James, Jack, Jennifer, Jessica or Jamhal? I experimented with a Gravatar acc…

My avatar just showed up on my PS3 ... thanks!

I would definitly like to be able to set a custom Username/Avater from Plex!

I too would prefer to have a built-in avatar feature, rather than having to use Gravatar. But, since Plex is using Gravatar, here’s what I’m finding wrong with it: As the OP said, the Gravatar’s appearance in Plex Web is inconsistent. It does not appear on the Switch User page. [image] It …

beckfield, try doing a refresh without cache (Ctrl+F5 on windows/linux, command+shift+R on mac). The avatars on the Switch Users screen seem to have really long cache times. My old Gravatar persisted for at least a week after I changed it before I finally thought to do Ctrl+F5, and that fixed it; pe…

@oxguy3 said: beckfield, try doing a refresh without cache (Ctrl+F5 on windows/linux, command+shift+R on mac). The avatars on the Switch Users screen seem to have really long cache times. My old Gravatar persisted for at least a week after I changed it before I finally thought to do Ctrl+F5, and t…

Plex Forums have their own picture, I would say, using that makes more sense than Gravatar. However that would not work for managed subaccounts, so I don’t think that this is a good fix, but better than the current option.

This would be logical. Maybe even Facebook avatar sync or something like that for the non-technically minded?

How do you actually vote for this feature? Don’t see a vote button. I really don’t want a Gravatar account just for this feature. Its just like 1Password needing Dropbox for syncing, that has always annoyed me. Open Dropbox account for this reason only. Please add this in a future feature cycle I k…

you ‘Like’ the first post in this thread.

Since I can’t use Gravatar with my HOME/Sub users I think the only solution is a built in one…

[implemented] Better Gravatar usage .. or internal Plex avatar option

Feature Suggestions

OttoKerner August 3, 2018, 9:33am 22

This has been implemented already.
Look here for an explanation how to assign your managed users an avatar: Avatars for managed users [implemented]

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[implemented] Better Gravatar usage .. or internal Plex avatar option

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