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With Gravatar’s Outage and Suckage, Should A New Avatar System Take Its Place?
http://stellify.net/hacking-away/with-gravatars-ou...
by amiable_indian 714 days ago, published 689 days ago (stellify.net)

A gravatar is a globally recognized avatar. A user can store an image that represents one online. Upon registration the image is tied to the email address used during signup. In order to be “globally recognized,” though, websites have to install code that recognize and display gravatars, say when a person comments on the website. In my case, I’m using Wordpress, which has a plugin called Gravatars2 for supporting gravatars.

I like the concept of gravatars because it’s hardly an endeavor that takes advantage of people. It’s just there to make the Internet more interesting. Kinda like Intention Cloud and Totally Deserved.

But this may be exactly why Gravatar is experiencing problems. Gravatar has been down for quite sometime; that is, the site is currently closed to any new signups and it’s got error messages all over. This maintenance mode has been around for a long time now, which has me worried, even if it promises it won’t shut down.

It’s not the same reason the Wordpress plugin displayed the glaring glitch, but I started to wonder: what is the Web 2.0 world doing about this?

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devilsworkshop   # devilsworkshop
  Posted 714 days ago. (hide)

@ami – congrats for the 2000 landmark.You now have 2000 posts on indianpad more than any other user – gr8 milestone! :-)

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sofimi   # sofimi
  Posted 714 days ago. (hide)

I am bothered this; this excerpt came from an entry I wrote yet no credit is given to the author except for the link back. I am curious as to whether this poster, which the guy above me is congratulating because he has garnered more than 2000 posts, has actually written all of those posts. I hope somebody can elucidate on this.

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devilsworkshop   # devilsworkshop
  Posted 714 days ago. (hide)

@sofimi – amiable_indian is the poster and not the author! He has recollected 2000+ very good stories from different links/blogs and this takes some doing, thats y i cong. him.

You should not expect any thing other than a linkback. Here’s a tip! Please backup your blog/site coz the traffic from ipad is gonna result in a crash! :-)

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spencer_911   # spencer_911
  Posted 714 days ago. (hide)

@sofimi – its a social bookmarking site and thats the purpose of it all.
btw congrts ami on the 2k posts

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sofimi   # sofimi
  Posted 714 days ago. (hide)

@devilsworkshop: yes, i understand that he just posted it. but it’s easy to confuse a poster and an author if someone has no idea what a digg-like, web 2.0 social bookmarking website is. i’m bothered by how the poster copy-pasted text i wrote. if one were sharing bookmarks just like digg or delicious, it’s pretty standard measure to indicate whether text is quoted from the post or not. and usually, posters provide a summary of the entry instead.

(also, i was confused by the site system because when it loaded on my computer, i kept getting 503 errors and the stylesheets and images didn’t load.)

guys, thanks for your patience with me. :-)

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