The Hickensian

20.07.05

Gravatars will be OK!

As you may have noticed, gravatar.com has been down for a few days, but have no fear. I had an email from Tom Werner this morning which explains everything:

“I left for vacation to China on the 11th, and it seems I forgot to renew the gravatar.com domain before I left. Now I have the rude awakening here in Hangzhou that gravatars have been down since the 15th. Curse my timing! I am renewing the domain right now but it might take a little while to go through and there might be other problems I don’t forsee. Could you to make a little note on your weblog informing the peoples of this misfortune? Tell them I still care!!!!”

Try and enjoy your holiday Tom!

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No.1

Eric said 1445 days ago:

Instead of gravatar.com you can use the IP adress http://64.124.231.223/.

Search for the lines

$grav_base_url = “http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=”.md5($email).$rating;
$grav_url = “http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=”.md5($email).$rating.$size.$border;

in the glx_gravatar plugin and replace them with the following lines:

$grav_base_url = “http://64.124.231.223/avatar.php?gravatar_id=”.md5($email).$rating;
$grav_url = “http://64.124.231.223/avatar.php?gravatar_id=”.md5($email).$rating.$size.$border;

So gravatars will work again :)

Source: http://yatil.de/Weblog/gravatare-in-textpattern-reaktivieren

No.2

Timmargh said 1445 days ago:

You can do the same with the Movable Type Gravatar plug-in – works perfectly.

Good to hear it was just an oversight and not a shutdown.

No.3

Jens Meiert said 1445 days ago:

And the community breathes a sigh of relief.

No.4

Trenton Boyd said 1445 days ago:

Timmargh – Yes, the MT Gravatar plugin works perfectly, but only when gravatar.com is up. Since it went down it doesn’t even display my “alternate” image I specified. I just had to endure it saying “gravatar” next to everybody’s name until it was fixed.

But man, I’m glad they fixed that.

No.5

tom said 1445 days ago:

Gravatar.com is up for me. :) Whew…

No.6

isil said 1445 days ago:

Apparently a Mr. Alan Bell just paid their domain renewal fee. Way to go Alan!

No.7

Michael Greene said 1445 days ago:

:Phew: And here I thought my code was b0rked. Thanks for the update (and thanks to Tom and Alan Bell)

No.8

pketh said 1445 days ago:

Good news to hear Tom’s okay .. that was a weird week or so :)

I know from experience though, how difficult getting decent internet can be in China – especially Hangzhou.

No.9

Joel Pan said 1445 days ago:

Glad to see Gravatar’s back… was worried for a while there.

No.10

Sujay said 1445 days ago:

Hm, mabe that’s why I’ve been having trouble getting my Gravatar rated recently. It’s been a few weeks. Hope someone will get my icon out of pending status soon.

No.11

Nat said 1444 days ago:

Hurrah! Huzzah! yay for gravatars coming back :)

No.12

clint said 1443 days ago:

woot! thanks for the update Jon.

No.13

Lowell Wood said 1443 days ago:

Thanks so much for turning me on to gravatars, i am currently redesigning my main website to make it standards compliant, and i will be sure to include gravatars in commenting.