Can someone help me get a new avatar?

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I used to be good at doing stuff like that myself but find it hard to concentrate these days.

All I did for my current one is find a picture on Pinterest and crop so much of it all that was left was a pink haired lady that looks kind of bitchy.

How do you get avatars for this site?

I'm too dumb for this.

I like that avatar—except for the frown.

She’s a very pretty person.

I could help you and I'd be glad to.
I don't know what you'd be looking for.

Pick an image you like and PM it to Cornflake to insert as your new avatar.

^ Yep, no problem - provided it can be edited to fit.

Okay thanks guys.

Using a site like Imgur ("other services are available") makes it very easy to post an image to WP.

You set up a free account, to which you can upload images by browsing or by drag-n-drop - into your own private image area there.

Posting an image here is little more than clicking on it in your Imgur stash, then clicking a button next to it to copy the information required to post the image to WP.

In your WP post it's just a case of pasting into it to plant the ready-formatted image link, adding any required text, then clicking "Submit" as usual.

No images (apart from avatars) are stored here because of the storage space required for them, along with the accompanying increase of hosting costs (which Alex continues to pay at no charge to members).
But even if they were stored on WP, the process required to display them in a post would be very similar to that used for Imgur: there has to be some method of indicating where the image is located and as it's not possible (on any online service) to simply point at an image stored locally on your device, using a link to an image publically available elsewhere is the easiest solution.

Avatars are the only image type uploaded directly to WP - they're small and the storage doesn't amount to very much.
As there's an "Upload from your machine" button in a member profile to select an image, the biggest difficulty then is editing it so it fits the size required by WP: 130 pixels wide by 160 pixels high, with a file size not exceeding 3719.87 KiB.

I'm quite happy to help with this.

Yes indeed - that's exactly what Imgur does.

>ding< *sound of penny dropping*

But yeah, there are other sites allowing an anonymous image upload for the purposes of using on a site like WP that are probably simpler and less of a rabbit-hole distraction than Imgur.
I thought one was Pastebin but that seems to be text only.