Is anybody else out there using Gravatars? I saw Barry Price using it on his blog and read the page, and it looks like a damn cool idea.
How long do they take to “approve” your submitted picture, and do they give you any way to switch between a couple of them?
Barry Price says:
Every submitted Gravatar image has to be manually approved - they’re given an MPAA-style rating, and you can decide which levels you are comfortable displaying on your site.
From submission to approval usually takes just a few hours in my experience, but I guess it depends on how busy they are - it’s a volunteer service.
You can only have one active gravatar at a time, but you can change it whenever you like. You just have to wait for the replacement to be approved - in the meantime, your old image will be displayed.
I think it’s a great system, but unfortunately it means every site using them relies on gravatar.com being up and running at all times. Recently, it wasn’t…
July 22, 2005, 12:10 GMTjim says:
I like them, but given the recent network issues as mention by baz, i’m thinking of dropping it.
…specially as my gravitar is my ugly mug and i think it may offend some people
btw, your title, “Rants and Revaltions” sounds much grander than my “Rants and Rambles”, wish I’d thought of using that instead…
July 24, 2005, 09:44 GMT