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Adopt Gravatar support
Will you implement Gravatar (http://gravatar.com/) support? At present this is yet another site that users have to upload their avatar icon to. In addition to the OpenID support that I hear you're planning, that would be really great.
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It's never going to happen. It's like 2 lines code in a rails helper, and if they were going to, they would have by now.
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I also think this should be implemented, the more websites that support Gravatar the easier and less hassling the process of switching avatars is globally. If you wouldn't exclusively add Gravatar support, may I suggest letting us use URLs for avatars instead of uploading? You'd be saving space on your servers, and also we'd be able to use Gravatars by specifying their URLs.
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I'm not sure I understand the case you're describing. Gravatar doesn't cache the default URL you provide - it does a 302 redirect. GSFN would (still) have control over both the URL of avatars, and the associated caching policy.
(BTW, gravatar are given a max-age of 5 minutes, so they update fairly quickly once changed by a user)
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Urr... or you could just add ...?default=(user's gsfn avatar URL) to the Gravatar URL to redirect to the user's GSFN image if they don't have a Gravatar.
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Inappropriate?You're the first person to request support for Gravatars. I have one myself and I know they are useful, but I can't comment on how adding support would fit into our development schedule. Thanks for the idea!
I’m sure we'll add this at some point
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Inappropriate?Earle: Great question! I love the idea. We'll have to look into this and see how easy or hard it might be.
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Inappropriate?+1 for Gravatar support. Having implemented them on sites I manage I have to say it's pretty easy to do. And you can specify a fallback image so you are not dependent on the Gravatar service. -
Inappropriate?FYI, if you're curious about how Gravatar support has been accepted by our users, check out:
http://forums.zenbe.com/topic/84
Probably best summarized as, "cautious skepticism/enthusiasm" :)
(BTW, Gravatar support combined with OpenID would make for an unparalleled seamless login/identity experience for our users as they move from our service, to our blog, to GSFN forums. Very, very cool.)
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Inappropriate?You can add support for it in 5 minutes.
<%= image_tag("http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/#{ MD5::md5(user.email.downcase) }") %>
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Inappropriate?Not quite that simple Luis; That works fine when you only use gravatars, but we would need to meld gravatar with our current avatar system.
That said, while it would be a fairly simple task to add, perhaps a half day of work to go through the places we leverage avatar data and add a fallback onto gravatar data, I'd wager to say that my time could be better spent in any hundred of other more meaningful ways. I think it would be great to add, but to be honest, IMO that wouldn't get time devoted to it until Gravatar support reaches some critical mass. -
Inappropriate?Urr... or you could just add ...?default=(user's gsfn avatar URL) to the Gravatar URL to redirect to the user's GSFN image if they don't have a Gravatar.
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Inappropriate?And then when the user inevitably changes their avatar and the gravatar caches the original, we have to make sure the url changes so that the actual change happens (well, I'd have to investigate that given it is undefined behavior in their dev docs). That conflicts with our our goal to make avatar paths durable on our own side so we can more aggresively cache html fragments that have avatars in them.
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Inappropriate?I'm not sure I understand the case you're describing. Gravatar doesn't cache the default URL you provide - it does a 302 redirect. GSFN would (still) have control over both the URL of avatars, and the associated caching policy.
(BTW, gravatar are given a max-age of 5 minutes, so they update fairly quickly once changed by a user)
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Inappropriate?Ah, which is exactly what I couldn't find in their developer documents.1 Comment Add a comment
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LiveHttpHeaders Firefox plugin - picks up where developer docs leave off. :) -
Inappropriate?I have no interest in uploading a photo to this site. But if you were to use my gravatar one, then that'd be nice. -
Inappropriate?Either grab the gravataor (or similar services) from my email, address, or let me just enter a URL for my image. But I ain‘t uploading.
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Inappropriate?Gravatar support would be appreciated. You could always have a failover to the cupcake icons you so love with a "d=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fimages%2Fexample.jpg" query string appended to the gravatar url. You could even randomize that cupcake URL if you wished.
You could also have the default redirect back to a script which determines if the user has uploaded a local graphic and transmits that inline. Then, you get support for all of the above (gravatar > local image > default cupcake).
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Who said anything about a guarantee?! :0
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Any 'official' word from Get Satisfaction about this Eric?... lol
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I like this idea a lot (a whole lot), Alex, but I'll be honest and say that it's not at the top of the list. I'll keep being vocal about it internally at Get Satisfaction, but we really do have a huge list of things to accomplish. But, I bet we can do it at some point, and I definitely look forward to it.
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Inappropriate?Gravatar support would be great. I dont understand why more sites just dont leverage gravatar and advertise it and not waste time server space with their own avatar system. One question though how does gravatar meld with open id hmmmmm
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Inappropriate?There is an OpenID alternative to avatars: www.openvatar.com
However, I would love Automattic to support OpenID in the gravatar service - perhaps, instead of referencing an MD5'd email address in the Gravatar URL, they could have an MD5'd OpenID URL...?
I might email them and raise the question.
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OpenId's (at least mine) has one embedded, but I'm not sure how "standard" it is. The api could request the email from the openid service in order to create the has that way.
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Inappropriate?Gravatar support would be great. I hate having to go to many sites to update the same resource... in this case, an avatar. Gravatar, Pavatar (like Gravatar, but hosted on one's own server), or any other service that would give me more control over resources that identify me would be beneficial to me.
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Inappropriate?Eric and Scott your responses are ridiculous. You have a forum where your own users can request a feature they feel passionately about and you've failed (miserably) to use it to your advantage. Said feature will take you all of one whole day apparently to implement but of course you've "got a huge list of things to accomplish". Good for you. I wonder how many of those "things" were requested so passionately by your users.
And I hope you geniuses don't think this is something wanted only by the ten users that have bothered to post here, 'cause that would just be tragic.
Well what do I know, satisfaction is apparently optional and certainly not guaranteed. Gee, thanks Eric!1 Comment Add a comment
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I'm proud of what we've accomplished as a very small team. It's always sad to hear anonymous posters react with such anger.
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Inappropriate?Eric, you have every right (and possibly, reason) to be proud. Yours may be a small team but (and correct me if I'm wrong) this is a for-profit business after all - heck you're VC funded and all.
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Inappropriate?To me, Gravatar support is an indication of internet goodwill. It means that you care about putting your users first, and making their lives easier. The silo mentality of forcing people to add a whole bunch of data to every single website they sign up to is a complete time waster, and leads to old and inconsistent data. If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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Inappropriate?Yes yes yes! Adding Gravatars is super easy too, just a special URL based on the user's email address.
I’m using a consistent profile image
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Inappropriate?Would love this, and am seeing it pop up in a range of places. Very nice to see a common image, and saves time in creating a profile on every separate site.
I’m thinking about how easy OpenId + gravatar is!
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Inappropriate?No update at this point.1 Comment Add a comment
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Sadness.
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Inappropriate?I also think this should be implemented, the more websites that support Gravatar the easier and less hassling the process of switching avatars is globally. If you wouldn't exclusively add Gravatar support, may I suggest letting us use URLs for avatars instead of uploading? You'd be saving space on your servers, and also we'd be able to use Gravatars by specifying their URLs.
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Inappropriate?+1, we would love Gravatar support also.
You can make this an option in user profiles. This is similar to what WordPress does :D
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Inappropriate?It's never going to happen. It's like 2 lines code in a rails helper, and if they were going to, they would have by now.
I’m now going to figure out how to stop getting emails from this topic because i don't care anymore and they come like once every month
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Hi, topic starter here. I have to agree with you. It's extremely disappointing.
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