Use identicons as avatars instead of initials

[greimela]

E.g. from https://jdenticon.com/

[lordlycastle]

It makes it pretty for marketing images but it reduces usability as now you cannot know who the person is without hovering over each icon.

[greimela]

Interesting point.
I observed that the two letter acronyms often collide and are hard to recognize at a first glance.
On the other hand, the identicons of Github are very easy to remember and recognize again.

[lordlycastle]

Good point.

It’s almost like we need some unique image which anyone can look at it and recognise the user’s identity ... wonder what that could be? ☺️

Maybe we can keep both the initials and custom unique recognisable background. Because keeping track of 100+ Gravatar images without initials will not be easy. Especially for people who are colour blind.