Re: Gravatar support

> Hello,
>
> Rob has just finished work on Gravatar support, and it has now been
> merged onto the test servers (see [1] for an example).
>
> While most people are generally for Gravatar support, but a few people
> have shown some concern over it. So this presents us with 3 options:
>
> * Mandatory Gravatars for all users with email addresses. Gravatars
> will not show if the user does not have an email address. This is the
> current solution.
>
> * Optional Gravatar support - server Gravatars by hot-linking, but
> allow users to specify whether they want Gravatar support on or off.
>
> * Mirrored Gravatar support - as above, but Gravatars are first cached
> on MusicBrainz servers. This will cause an extra overhead on the
> servers, as at some point we have to update all our cached copies. I'm
> generally against this idea, for that reason…
>
> * Use a hot-linked Gravatar, and support custom image uploads.
>
> What do people think – which of these should we use?