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adventurebarbie 2016-04-02 18:43:38 UTC #1

Welcome @pyrockstar29433, I hope your down time is healthy and healing! I'm also brand new around here and found changing my profile picture and username less than straightforward. But I did figure it out and thought I might be able to help you.

I had no luck in this section (the Q&A forums). Navigating to settings through here allowed me to change my cover photo, but neither my profile pic, nor username (which wasn't as bad as yours ).
Ultimately, I had success by navigating to "My Account" by clicking on the icon photo (in the upper right corner) from the actual course exercise page I was working on at the moment.
From there, I clicked, "My Account" and then scrolled down to change "username" and "profile picture".

Good luck with your coding!

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miniapple8888 2016-04-02 18:47:53 UTC #2

@pyrockstar19436

No, I think this is because the profile is linked to Gravatar according to the email you are using for your account.

zainabrawat 2016-04-02 18:51:30 UTC #3

Hi,

All account related FAQ can be found here

To change your profile you need to change it on codecademy.com logout on the forum and login again. - Read here

Thanks

travism87 2016-04-20 00:02:13 UTC #4

@adventurebarbie - looks like there is an issue with changing your profile from the Q&A Forums/Codecademy Help/discuss.codecademy.com - when you're in any area of Codecademy Help (the Q&A Forums button is obviously a direct link to the section you're currently working on), there's no way to change your profile picture! You can only change your profile pic directly from codecademy.com, and not from discuss.codecademy.com.

jibblyj 2016-04-20 18:52:35 UTC #5

We know. We have found a recommend a workaround for the time being. I'm not sure if it will be changed, but you're correct.

Although...
You are just pretty much repeating what @zainabrawat said, and bumping an old topic up.

Please try not to do that in the future
Thanks.

travism87 2016-04-20 19:07:53 UTC #6

My bad! I just didn't understand that from @zainabrawat's reply, since it wasn't very grammatically clear.

albionsrefuge 2016-04-20 19:09:53 UTC #7

This isn't really what I would call an issue, it is planned that way. Several bits of information about your account on codecademy.com is transferred every time you login to discuss.codecademy.com.

As @zainabrawat pointed out, there is a Help topic explaining how that works.

jibblyj 2016-04-20 19:23:52 UTC #8

^Vv_Vv^V

I didn't find it that unclear, but I guess it's different from person to person

travism87 2016-04-20 20:07:30 UTC #9

I agree with you, I guess it's not really an issue. Though it would be nice to change your profile pic from Codecademy Help, for knuckleheads like me

albionsrefuge 2016-04-20 20:49:55 UTC #10

I don't know what that means exactly.

zainabrawat 2016-04-20 21:02:19 UTC #11

@travism87 I didn't explain as I added link to Help article which has the instructions

travism87 2016-04-20 21:43:14 UTC #12

by Codecademy Help I meant discuss.codecademy.com. You can't change your profile pic directly from discuss.codecademy.com.

And thanks @zainabrawat , touche!

albionsrefuge 2016-04-20 22:10:46 UTC #13

Ah, right. It is a one way data feed, the codecademy.com site is the authoritative source of your account info and bits of it are just copied to discuss,