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Unfortunately not.

I have seen people add their avatar as a picture on their post.  Like this. The only drawback is you need to add it every time you post. Some even posted signatures in similar way. 

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________***This is a fake signature. ***

Look, I found one. 

Example post with custom avatar and signature

I would also like to know how to get my custom avatar back. It looks like some people have one. 

But why do I have an avatar? I never chose this one and never had one on the old forums...

Only heroes get custom avatars. Heroes are the ones who help others in their posts.

You were assigned a random avatar when  you got here. You can edit it under your Account menu>Settings (top right).

I was assigned a lovely yellow thing, which I intended to keep, but they have now either removed those plain color (diamond?) avatars, or they go away once you climb community levels. I would expect a larger number of alternatives to serve some hundred thousand users... there must be thousands of user with the exact same avatar.

Well that is a bit unfair but thanks for letting me know 😄

The plain color avatars were defaults, supplied by the forum host according to a post I saw elsewhere.  A couple days ago, EA added some Apex-related avatars that replaced the defaults.

They really need to change this feature. This place is not AOL or Netscape..Let's get with the times! 👀 

Edit: or Navigator....👀