If the user uses a social login, offer to use their existing profile pic (but don’t do it automatically esp if that’s public by default), or offer automatic gravatar style avatar.
It’s all well wanting to make a community, I left the site not knowing what the site can do for me because I had no way to test drive what your offering before having to commit, simplify user sign up and if the community is worth it users will customise their account/profile later.
It’s all well wanting to make a community, I left the site not knowing what the site can do for me because I had no way to test drive what your offering before having to commit, simplify user sign up and if the community is worth it users will customise their account/profile later.