By default, the DIscourse software that powers this site uses Gravatar as a source for user pictures (getting the one linked to your email address as provided in the Fedora Account System. Gravatar is provided by open-source company Wordpress, but isn’t open source.
I think we should change to this for Fedora Discussion and Ask Fedora, but it will cause anyone who hasn’t set an avatar here locally to get a new one, which may be surprising. Additionally, new users without a open source / free software background are much less likely to have an avatar set up with Libravatar, so we might want to do something different on each site.
What do you think?
Should we switch to Libravatar on Fedora Discussion?
I love it! I have changed Gravatar to Libravatar on multiple other Discourse sites because it is actually so easy to do. Since we are active users of Libravatar in other Fedora apps in our ecosystem, it makes perfect sense to me to change here.
Plus, if @kevin is right, there won’t be any noticeable change except for people who have set a Libravatar and Gravatar separately.
Ah, thanks. Looks like that’s what they suggest in the api docs. On the other hand, I think it might not actually practically matter… but better to follow the documented process!
$ host -t a www.libravatar.org
www.libravatar.org is an alias for libravatar.org.
libravatar.org has address 3.237.94.246
$ host -t a seccdn.libravatar.org
seccdn.libravatar.org is an alias for libravatar.org.
libravatar.org has address 3.237.94.246
Super cool that Discourse makes it easy to swap in an Open Source alternative here, especially one that is supported in no small part by the Fedora Community.