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I have been following the Gravatar Blog and haven’t noticed anything new, other than user comments constantly complaining that the service doesn’t work, since February 15th. I paid my $10 to become a premium member and to have the ability to use multiple e-mail addresses and gravatars (Globally Recognized Avatars) but I haven’t been able to do anything with them since the version 2.0 launched.
I posted earlier about the Gravatar 2.0 launch and how it quickly plummeted after the fact. I had hoped that the service would once again become available. Of course, I have a vested interest in the service coming back online as I have paid a measly $10 dollars, but I paid that measly $10 for a service I am not receiving from Gravatar.com. If you review the comments in the Gravatar Blog, including the SPAM comments containing profanity and derogatory comments about Tom Werner, you’ll see that I am not the only one who is disappointed about this service, or lack thereof.
Anyway, I disabled my WordPress plugin to access and display the gravatars. I think I am going to write off my $10 investment and call Gravatar.com done. Eject! Eject! Abort! Abort!
Until next time…
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March 1st, 2007 at 7:02 PM
How disappointing for you! I’m sorry that it hasn’t worked out as promised!
FromMarch 3rd, 2007 at 9:41 AM
Yeah, well… What’s $10 in the grand scheme of things. Its not much. So, you miss a meal for a day or something. The fact is that I paid for a service that I was looking forward to incorporating into my blog and they haven’t delivered.
Oh, well… Such is life!
Jeff
FromMarch 3rd, 2007 at 10:52 AM
Cool idea nonetheless!
FromMarch 4th, 2007 at 4:15 PM
It is a cool idea and it wouldn’t really be that hard to implement. The problem would be, as Gravatar.com has experienced in the past, having enough bandwidth and server resources to serve the images in high volumes.
I’d like to do a proof of concept for the idea and see how difficult it would actually be. But, I have other projects to do right now…
Jeff
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