Re: Gravatar support

Oliver Charles wrote:

> While most people are generally for Gravatar support, but a few people
> have shown some concern over it.

Introducing Gravatar support means we'll have to go down that path further,
i.e. introducing support for Pavatar, OpenID's avatars and possible hundred
other things, just like we've had Twitter and immediately afterwards
identi.ca. We should see where our focus is. Nevertheless, it is very nice
to see MB keeping pace at current developments on the Web and doesn't try to
be jack of all trades by using services better suited for particular
purposes.

> * 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.

Sucks. Gravatar support is something a user might not even be aware of and
we should ask him at least once.

> * Optional Gravatar support - server Gravatars by hot-linking, but
> allow users to specify whether they want Gravatar support on or off.

Better.

> * 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…

Against it since a Gravatar is developed not to be cached.

> * Use a hot-linked Gravatar, and support custom image uploads.

+ option to turn gravatar off
+ hotlinking a custom URL

Then it'd be fine.

Nikolai.



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