I suppose, Gravatar generates the image from email address. If so, the reverse should be possible. How difficult would be to get the email associated with the image? Isnt it a potential spam threat? What are your thoughts? (other than calling me paranoid ;) i did that already) ...
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I just posted the question how-to-determine-why-the-browser-keeps-trying-to-load-a-page and discovered that my problem is with Gravatar. I also noticed that StackOverflow is suffering from the same outage. Does anyone know of a graceful way to determine if Gravatar, or any third party website for that matter, is up or not, before t...
I am using gravatar to load avatars for each user that posts a story on a page. I also am using jquery to round the corners of some span elements on the page. Unfortunately, it looks like grabbing the avatars from gravatar occurs before the jquery effects are applied (Without the gravatar code the elements are immediately rounded) so the...
Naturally, one would suspect that the algorithm creates images that are: highly unlikely to produce the same identicon twice; and capable of ensuring that each identicon is sufficiently distinctive as to not appear too similar to any other identicon ...
How does Stack Overflow for users auto-generate the gravatars for those who do not create a picture or who have not created a Gravatar icon? Where did these avatars comes from? Duplicate of what is the algorithm used to generate those little gravatar identicon images? which is itself duplicate of How do you generate that default avat...
Some sites have the ability to grab your profile picture after you sign up for the first time without the user actually uploading a pic. I think stackoverflow has this functionality at sign as well....How does it work? ...
Hi, How do I add a link that would let user change their Gravatar on my site? (The same way you can change your Gravatar on Wordpress) Thanks, Kenneth ...
Hi, Just trying to crate a simple comment form on a blog. I want to load the user's gravatar (using jquery) when he/she writes this in the email box. Anybody have a good code-snipit? ...
I am using the gravatar plugin for Ruby on Rails, works great, by woods via github -- but I want to change the the URL to add the option for d=identicon but I don't see that in the helper options. Can I get some help? Thanks! ...
I have set up the gravatar RoR plugin successfully (yeah!) but when someone does NOT have a gravatar account, I want it to display the identicon, which I guess shows up when d=identicon in the gravatar URL...but since I am using the plugin, I am basically saying gravatar_for (user) so...is there a way to add that value? Thanks! ...
Possible Duplicate of How do you generate that default avatar in Stackoverflow? Is there a name for the type of geometric based unique avatars that are generated for users of Stack Overflow? I'm interested in the method for generating the patterns and if this is a area of study out side of Gravatars. ...
Anyone knows what is the system that allow blogs / websites to generate a random picture for anonymous commenters? Its always the same picture if you input the same name and email, seems very useful but can't track down what it is. It's used here on stackoverflow, and I've seen it on a number of other sites and blogs. Thanks! ...
I'm trying to load Gravatars into Flash. Luckily, they provided a crossdomain.xml file at http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/crossdomain.xml My code: Security.loadPolicyFile("http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/crossdomain.xml"); var loader:Loader = new Loader(); loader.load(new URLRequest("http://en.gravatar.com/avatar/" + gravatar + "?s=35&d=i...
Gravatar is linked to email address. If I enter somebody else's email - I can use his/her photo as avatar and that someone won't like it. So the obvious solution is - validate email - which some other people will not like either. The question is - is it worth setting up email validation for the purpose of making sure that stealing avat...
I'm pretty new to PHP, so if you have any thoughts or suggestions to point me in the right direction, I'd be grateful. Trying to make a simple function to check if a user's email address translates into a valid Gravatar Image, but it seems gravatar.com has changed their headers. Using get_headers('[email protected]') ret...
In the context of having a list of user that has an icon next to their name, is it better to cache all images of Gravatar for few minutes or it's fine to directly display the image from Gravatar? The list is around 200 users on every pages. ...
Hi all. I've found this tutorial (http://www.coffeepowered.net/2009/02/15/graceful-degredation-using-gravatar-as-a-fallback-avatar-with-paperclip/) about implementing gravatar as default image to the paperclip-enabled model, but on implementing i see message "undefined method `match' for [:format, :png]:Array". Whats wrong in this articl...
The reason I ask is beacause I want to find other services like these two. It saved me alot of time developing my own solution. So what is the name of these kind of services? ...
I have gotten the gravatar service working on my site. But I would like to know if the user has uploaded their picture or not. Is there a way to know this? ...