How can I use Gravatar as my profile picture?

[christianspecht]

I've had a Gravatar account for >10 years, and it's linked to the one and only email adress in my GitHub settings.

I always thought Github would use my Gravatar, but I just noticed that the image on my GitHub profile is actually coming from https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/263372?v=4

On this page in the Github docs, there's the following image which implies that I can either upload an avatar or use my Gravatar:

But when I try to edit my profile picture, the "Revert to Gravatar" option is not there:

So how can I make Github use my Gravatar, for the email adress that's already associated with GitHub?

[linuxlawson]

I don't know if this will help at all, but if you read the selected answer here #32845,
maybe you can make some kind of sense out of what might be happening.

[christianspecht]

Apparently those https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/263372?v=4 URLs kind of "cache" Gravatar or redirect to it.

I changed my image on Gravatar yesterday (for the email that's linked with GitHub), and my GitHub profile now shows my new Gravatar image...but the URL is still https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/263372?v=4.

That explains why I'm not seeing the "Revert to Gravatar" option...but it's not obvious that GitHub actually uses my Gravatar, because of the different URL.

[uzkjzjjz]

@zackfern

[dgchrt]

I've been through the same situation and in my case I can change my Gravatar picure all I want, I still get the same old picture on GitHub. No idea how to fix this.

[nithin-mk]

@dgchrt This may fix your issue: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/a/28160/372743