Gravatar = Major Suckage
The idea of gravatars is nice … but only if you can get something out of it. Simply acting as a dictionary to lookup URLs for images doesn’t let you insert arbitrary evil advertising and javascript! So, you then get things like:
%%ping gravatar.com
Pinging gravatar.com [64.124.231.223] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.Ping statistics for 64.124.231.223:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss)
What does this mean? Visitors in IE will choke because for some reason IE hangs while those images are timing out…
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on September 27th, 2005 at 8:46 pm
I’m having problems with Gravatar today too. I think they are doing something with their server or something.
on September 28th, 2005 at 4:24 am
I have been trying to upload mine for the past week. After sucessful upload about 5 days ago I receive a mail:
“Due to a server error, the gravatar you recently submitted was not stored properly. We have fixed the problem, and if you login to your gravatar account and re-upload your gravatar, we will rate it as soon as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience”
Tried to upload evry day since then. Still the same problem. I have given up.
on September 30th, 2005 at 5:29 am
This is why I cache the gravatars on my site… using a groovy wordpress plugin. Solves these sort of problems.
on November 22nd, 2006 at 3:26 am
Sorry, this is just to grab an 80×80 img of my gravatar.
on November 22nd, 2006 at 3:27 am
sorry.
on March 26th, 2007 at 6:15 am
great gravatar, im not sure how to go about it though!