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#friendica #featureRequest

Hi there,
is there a way to change locally the profile picture displayed of a contact?
Haven't seen any option to that regard in the contact page.

I'm asking in part specifically because of the #eyeContact issues some people have. It's about the fact that they have real problems facing full face pictures that kinda "look straight at you", actually a known psychological effect not only in primates.
(Just stare consistently at a dog and you'll see. Well actually better you don't, unless you know what you are doing)

At the same time that's probably not the only reason a avatar could be unwanted for someone. So, optional I could think of or a standard feature that disallows the display of a avatar or a feature that allows to replace the avatar picture with something chosen by the user.
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This entry was edited (1 month ago)
Just had a look at the addons to see if there is some avatar addon I missed but it looks like that they are all to place some random avatar if there is none at all. At least I guess that this would be the place to create an addon that allows to replace an existing avatar or at least delete one and replace it with some no avatar option:
https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/tree/develop/birdavatar
https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/tree/develop/catavatar
https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/tree/develop/gravatar
https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/tree/develop/libravatar