Goodbye Gravatar, Hello User Icons!
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What's official supported versus not officially supported in plugins?
Anything we have removed from core and moved into a plugin (which allows anybody to build their own solution) is officially supported
One example: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-composer-default
Removing the composer from core allowed us to have the redactor WYSIWYG composer as an option. The idea is that building hooks and making things modular so people can build their own solutions.
As I said on twitter, I understand the frustration, but we're trying to build a solution that makes everybody happy, and we are working on one that makes you happy too. Just keep your thoughts on GH and we will try our hardest.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@exodo said:
Whats the problem with gravatar? Whoever is interested in your forum will have time to upload some custom avatar...
The problem is removing it.
And we have found the latter sentiment to not be true at all. Even very active forum users will do nothing to upload an avatar. Using Gravatar was an important part of that functionality for us.
Also, Gravatar acts as a CDN for many of these forums. Remember that we can't use services like CloudFlare because of Websockets. So having the avatars at a third party was pretty important.
You can use cf and websockets. Just set another subdomain with grey cloud only for websockets, its not ideal but it will work fine.
Gravatar cdn is slow++
Removing functions is always bas but i,m sure there will be a plugin for it.
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@exodo said:
Gravatar cdn is slow++
I'm not saying it is my first choice, just that we don't want to be the ones supplying the images!
Give me Gravatar as an option but an automatic system for plopping them on S3 and I'm all for it.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@exodo said:
Gravatar cdn is slow++
I'm not saying it is my first choice, just that we don't want to be the ones supplying the images!
Give me Gravatar as an option but an automatic system for plopping them on S3 and I'm all for it.
We use imgur, speed is similar
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Using imgur for your avatars?
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Okay anyways, moral of the story is:
- If you have an issue, post it on GH so the community can discuss and most often than not we do fix or address it.
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@psychobunny said:
Okay anyways, moral of the story is:
- If you have an issue, post it on GH so the community can discuss and most often than not we do fix or address it.
On GH and not on the NodeBB community? This is where we've always posted as it is the community. Never understood that you were wanting issues elsewhere.
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Here is what avatars look like after an update to 0.9.0 on Gamrhaus which is, more or less, a test community for us..
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@scottalanmiller
nodebb-plugin-gravatarv1.0.1 contains options to default new users to gravatar, and force all users to use gravatar.Users will still see the option to change their picture, so you'd probably want to hide the "Change Picture" button via css/js/template changes.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@julian said:
What theme are you using?
Persona
Doesn't look like you have the latest Persona theme installed.
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Hmmmm.... looks like the upgrade script isn't working. After doing the upgrade and it thinking that it ran successfull, NodeBB lost the avatars but doesn't not appear to have upgraded.
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Doing the whole process over again.... will report back.
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Okay, second run fixed that. No idea what happened on the first run. Just repeated it and it was okay.
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Okay, here is what it looks like after the Gravatar plugin has been installed....
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Is there some trick to getting the Gravatar plugin to use Gravatar?
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v1.0.2 hasn't shown up still. Seems odd...
