Gravatar Replacement? With Gravatar’s Outage and Suckage (apparently the word was used as a comment in testing), Should A New Avatar System Take Its Place? Some nice research into what is available and the possibilities.
Gravatar Replacement? With Gravatar’s Outage and Suckage (apparently the word was used as a comment in testing), Should A New Avatar System Take Its Place? Some nice research into what is available and the possibilities.
[…] Update: On the subject of Gravatars, I’ve just read about Pavatars. It’s a similar idea, but this time instead of being stored centrally like Gravatars, Pavatars are stored on your own webspace. Nice idea. I’ve already got my own one. I wonder if it will catch on like Gravatars did, because it sounds to me like Gravatars are dead. Via Weblog Tools Collection. […]
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Gravatar has let us down too many times. I’m all for a replacement system if I can find one that delivers the same ease-of-use and simplicity but actually works reliably, at least more often than gravatars….
Try favatar instead of gravatar.
If you want a hosted favatar/favicon, try http://www.myfavatar.com 🙂