#3329 - Gravatar integration
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By Chris Graham
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| Identifier | #3329 |
|---|---|
| Issue type | Feature request or suggestion |
| Title | Gravatar integration |
| Status | Completed |
| Tags |
Good for training (custom) |
| Handling member | Chris Graham |
| Addon | core_cns |
| Description | Automatically pull in gravatar's if available.
I didn't want us to do this initially, but it seems gravatar has become a successful standard. |
| Steps to reproduce | |
| Funded? | No |
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Gravatar works via an md5 hash of a user's email address. Exposing this to visitors is a security risk. So we will go through a local proxy script to get the gravatar. This also stops tracking. The privacy policy automatically will mention gravatar, if enabled, as there's still a privacy concern.
Gravatars will only show if no local avatar is set.
What is nice now is that Composr is tracking our external dependencies carefully, and in a maintainable way, and with unit testing where possible. So while in the past I was against adding external dependencies willy-nilly, this is no longer a concern.