Summary: Gravatar Avatars are the spawn of Satan Created: 2017-10-05 14:30 Status: Suspended Category: Feature From: Hypothesis? Assigned: Priority: 2

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Description: Lobsters software uses Gravatar for its avatars. Gravatar is one of the ultimate webshit scourges and it's almost offensive to our users to have it.

We should fix it with a real avatar system. Hypothesis?

AMENDED 2017-10-05: We couldn't come up with any good reason to have avatars at all, so they're going to get turned off entirely.

UPDATED 2017-10-09: https://github.com/achmizs/whistling-lobsters/pull/1/commits/4bef0713c534462f35f0cec1fdea5770faea59b0 turns off display of avatars

SUSPENDED 2017-10-10: Avatars are now off by default; if we still want to change the avatar system, or wholly remove the feature, we can revisit this.