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search.cpan.org Gravatars are go!

Journal written by schwern (1528) and posted by brian_d_foy on 2007.09.11 3:27   

schwern writes "Graham added Gravatars to author pages on search! Have a look!

Because of performance issues with gravatar.com, they're cached and the cache is still being populated. If yours isn't there, just give it a bit of time.

Here's the FAQ entry I've proposed.

Where do the author's pictures come from and how do I set mine?

They come from the Gravatar associated with that author's cpan.org email address. To set yours, simply sign up with gravatar using your cpan.org address. We cache the gravatars so give it a day or so to catch up."

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• weird place for it (Score:1)

  by Alias (5735)

  Looks cool, although I think we probably need to go through a few rounds of look and feel tweaking...
  
  
• Do you work for Gravatar? (Score:2)

  by acme (189)

  Why are we using a commercial service? I tried to add one for my main email address and then when I wanted to add another for my CPAN address I got: "You could add another email address if you had a premium account". $10 a year for hosting one image? No th
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by hex (3272)

    See also this related thread [perl.org].
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by b10m (6087)

    You even have to pay $10/year for adding another email address with the image you already had. I'll pass on this one too and wait for the OpenID implementation ;-)
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by jk2addict (4946)

    NO thanks indeed. Why not just let users upload a gravater.jpg to their author directory?
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      That was my thought also, but note that CPAN and search.cpan.org are not the same thing. How would the CPAN mirrors feel about carrying those photos? I guess it will be so little data in total that it doesn’t matter, but…
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by b10m (6087)

        If the problem is the space, I'm willing to host it and invite the Perl Hackers out there to write something similar to gravatar ;-)
      • CPAN mirrors wouldn't care. (Score:2)

        by schwern (1528)

        My original idea was to have authors upload face.jpg and icon.jpg files. It's unlikely to be a real issue, there's all sorts of crap on CPAN that's not a module and nobody really cares, and this is actually useful. As long as its freely redistributable a
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by schwern (1528)

    Why are we using a commercial service?

    
    
    Because...
    
    1) It was easy to implement.
    
    Which is very important as I wanted to have Graham and Andreas do as little work as possible in order to have the best chance them to agree to it. I've been kicking around this
• Only on one page? (Score:1)

  by jplindstrom (594)

  It's only displayed on the one page, the author's home page, which I bet is veeery unvisited on a day by day basis.
  
  I think that to make any difference it would need to be displayed on the distro/module pages as well.
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by schwern (1528)

    Yeah, that's my feeling as well. I suggested it to Graham. Let him know you feel the same [cpan.org].
    • • Re: (Score:2)

        by schwern (1528)

        If a 40x40 image on a web page really bothers you, you're free to block it. That's the great thing about the web. If you haven't yet figured out how to block images in a web browser, here ya go! [adblockplus.org] That will make your entire browsing experience much more e