New Gravatar

The rewrite of Gravatar from Ruby to PHP is done. The backend should be identical, the serving of Gravatars should be even faster, and as a bonus we now support SSL Gravatars.

32 thoughts on “New Gravatar

  1. uhh, nice with support of ssl avatars 🙂

    I dont have problems with the speed of getting avatars, but improvement is always welcome =)

  2. Seems the secondary address of my Gravatar account got deleted during the migration. Had to reregister it again. Anyone else has the same problem?

  3. Georg: WordPress.com and Gravatar accounts got merged / tied together / etc.

    The problem for me is I used separate e-mails per and so now it’s a mess. Ugh.

  4. So, You worked out how to get entire-domain gravatars working yet? 😛

    (eg, look at my email, Thats why i’d like a per-domain gravatar: contact+@dd32.id.au).

    Checking for a file in the root of the domain would be enough to proove i’m authorised for the domain, and the Gravatar stuff in wordpress would need to be changed slightly to send the domain as well (as a hash of course again 😛

  5. Georg, I did had the same problem with my secondary adress deleted. And nothing seems to work anymore on my blog’s comment with gravatar now.

  6. @Juanpa! – although no sensitive information is sent with a gravatar request, SSL is useful if you’re using gravatars on a page that also uses SSL. This prevents the user getting a warning that not every item on the page is encrypted and that the page may not be safe.

    Also I guess there may be cases where you may wish to guard which gravatars are being requested (e.g. in a private forum offering support for addiction sufferers etc).

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