support Libravatar instead or as well as Gravatar

[wolftune]

See https://www.libravatar.org/

Bravo on the wonderful work!

On a side note: mirroring at GitLab.com would even be a direction that goes even more toward free/libre/open ideals… they are more FLO than GitHub and are even switching soon to Piwik instead of Google Analytics… but it's not a big deal.

I'm just impressed by the dedication to FLO ideals already, so figured I'd mention the even minor outstanding bits. Keep up the AMAZING work!!

[lfzawacki]

Thanks for the compliments.

Currently the site uses gravatar on the commenting system, which is separate Rails application called juvia (https://github.com/lfzawacki/juvia) . The original project is not currently maintained by the creators and I've been thinking of making some improvements when/if I need them on the site. All that is to say that I could easily add support for libravatar, but It's just not a priority right now.

About gitlab, I'm not opposed to someone mirroring the code there, but again, I don't have it as a priority and won't do it myself any time soon.

[wolftune]

Note: Libravatar when used via md5 actually includes Gravatar-fallback option already

[lfzawacki]

Thanks for the tip, that would make things easier. It's still not something I'll get to right away but here are the libravatar simple api docs for my future reference: https://wiki.libravatar.org/api/

It should require little effort to just use this API instead of gravatar in juvia.

[trebmuh]

Libravatar is shutting down. See: https://blog.libravatar.org/posts/Libravatar.org_is_shutting_down_on_2018-09-01/ and https://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/looking-back-on-starting-libravatar/ .

[lfzawacki]

Closing old issue

[wolftune]

Wait wait! Libravatar is back!! More promising than ever and should be supported!

https://blog.libravatar.org/posts/Brave_new_Libravatar.org/

[lfzawacki]

Ok, I'll reopen and take a new look at it. It's already configured for the application avatars (not really used right now) and I could make it work with the commenting system which I plan on tackling in the near future.