Comments on: Using hash generated avatars

By: Rarst

Rarst — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:54:07 +0000

@matt

Well, it’s personal choice of web developer to use or not gravatars at his site.

There are no security issues – email addresses are never transferred to or from gravatar service, so there is no possibility of them being intercepted or harvested.

By: matt

matt — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:53:10 +0000

why don’t more sites use gravatars? are there security issues involved?

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By: Rarst

Rarst — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 11:05:12 +0000

@gry planszowe

Glad you liked it, welcome to blog. :)

By: gry planszowe

gry planszowe — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:56:49 +0000

Interesting article, i have bookmarked your blog for future referrence, thanks

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:58:02 +0000

@Lyndi

Glad to be of use. :) Sometimes default options are not the best ones.

By: Lyndi

Lyndi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:51:37 +0000

What a great idea. I just set my blog to identicons and they look just wonderful. I love the fact that there is now a bit more color and everyone without a gravatar will still have a different graphic shown. I implemented this and it immediately changed all the previous ‘mystery man’ graphics. Thanks for a great tip.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:44:12 +0000

@Ben

Mystery man is soo boring. :) Try identicons, I completely like them.

By the way setting blank has pretty nice effect too if place for gravatar is not obviously visual. No default placeholders but still showing gravatars for those who have them.

By: Ben from frogstr

Ben from frogstr — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:25:58 +0000

Thanks for the luv Rarst. This is a really nice post and that will actually let me put something else than the “Mystery Man” as the default Gravatar! I’m thinking about making a custom one…