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”.
@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.
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.
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,
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