Gravatar Properly Syncing Again

March 02, 2007 | Posted by Tom Werner

I want to apologize for the spotty gravatar syncing that has been occurring over the last two weeks. I’ve finally identified and fixed the bug that was causing the problem and your gravatar selections should propagate correctly now. I will go back and re-sync everyone just to make sure all the failed syncs get done.

The way Gravatar 2.0 deals with serving gravatar images is a multi-step process. When you assign a gravatar to an email address, the system takes your image, creates 80 scaled images from that (from 1×1 to 80×80) and puts them into a directory structure that will allow the gravatar serving lighttpd servers to serve them directly as files. Once the directory structure is created, it is tarred and gzipped to create a single compressed file that represents the images for a specific email address (based on the sha1 of the address). This file is then uploaded to Amazon S3 for distribution to the gravatar serving servers (of which there are 2). In addition, a message is placed on a queue for each server (via Amazon SQS). This completes step 1. On each gravatar serving server there is a process that pops messages off its queue, downloads the stated file from S3, and extracts it into the correct location. It is then available for serving to the internet. This completes step 2.

The problem was that the library I am using to interface with S3 (AWS/S3 in Ruby) had a bit of a quirk that seemed like it should have worked, but didn’t. For the benefit of others, I present the problem code and the solution.

The original, offending code:

AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!(
:access_key_id     => '***********************',
:secret_access_key => '**************************************'
)

bucket = AWS::S3::Bucket.find('gravatar' ;)
archive = bucket[sha1 + ".tar.gz"]

This code connects to the S3 service, gets the ‘gravatar’ bucket, then grabs the file from it. Simple enough, but misleading. When you get the bucket, only the first 1000 items within it are returned (a byproduct of the Amazon S3 API). Then, when you try to grab your file from the bucket, the file will be returned only if the item was within those 1000 items. This explains why Gravatar worked fine at first, then degraded to where fewer and fewer successful syncs where happening. It’s a devious bug to detect, and the documentation was not forthcoming on why this might be happening.

If you know that the object you’re interested in is in S3 but it can’t be found during a lookup, you’ll want to fetch the item directly, thereby eliminating the problem of a maximum of 1000 returned items. In retrospect, this is obviously the more desirable way to do things.

Here is the fixed code:

AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!(
:access_key_id     => '***********************',
:secret_access_key => '**************************************'
)

archive = AWS::S3::S3Object.find(sha1 + ".tar.gz", 'gravatar' ;)

So, if your gravatar has not been appearing properly, you can reassign it to your email address and it will propogate now. As I said before, I will push the entire contents of S3 onto the queues to make sure everyone is up to date.

I’m very sorry this problem took so long to fix, and I understand your frustration. I hope you will once again be happily gravataring!

Tom

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189 Responses »

  1. Benke Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    It works!?

  2. MissHagrid Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks for the response, Tom. I re-associated my avatar and am seeing if it’s working now.

  3. Let's see again Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    alright then the Blue G YET AGAIN

  4. Dennis Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing

  5. Let's see Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    alrighty then

  6. AntBee Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks Tom! Mine has been working smoothly since Gravatar 2.0 was launched. I hope this is really the end of the problems so everyone can go on with their lives again.

  7. Tom Werner Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    The Syncing servers are fixed but still catching up from being down before. I’ll post another comment once they’ve caught up. Looks like I need *another* server.

  8. Gillian Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks

  9. Quinn Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing

  10. Khalidah Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thank you Tom for the email and update
    It is working fine now :)

  11. sdvgc Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Why is the URL still with .php? And MD5? Shouldn’t there be a new URL?

  12. Okay Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks for the “catching up comment” becaseu I was wondering

  13. Thank you!! Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Finally I didn’t want to have to send Bokeem Woodbine to your house!!!

  14. Lily Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Looking forward to seeing my avatar!

  15. Afiya Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing

  16. Lubos Motl Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks for fixing it, Tom.

  17. msk01 Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Hope it works now. Just test.

  18. flix Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    :)

  19. Storm Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Great! Refreshed my WordPress plugin cache and it came straight up. Great job! Thank you for having made a very cool web feature!

  20. Matthew Buchanan Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Tom, I’m still seeing an old icon that’s long-since been deleted. Have just tried re-confirming via the admin again. If it works you should see a light bulb.

  21. patri Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    .

  22. Robyn Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    This is a test to see if my Gravatar will finally work.

  23. Stephen Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing, 1, 2, 3.

  24. Jason Terk Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing!

  25. JET Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    mmmmmmmmmmm…….

  26. Virgilene Swift Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Help! My avatar is still not showing up. It is rated “G”. It has a green square around the picture both below the email address and around the address with the picture. The email address matches exactly on the site where I want the avatar. What am I doing wrong? Or is it still slow from the earlier problems???

  27. Pablo Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing 1,2,3 :)

  28. Chris Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing 1-2-3

  29. Dave Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing

  30. Nick Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing testing, 1 2 3 :-)

  31. xoacas Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Ok again.

  32. Alice Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing…

  33. Alis Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    WHY DAMN MY GRATAVAR DOESN’T WORK AGAIN?

  34. Katie Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    OMG YAY!!! I am so happy now :-D

  35. Angi Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    It works! :) Thank you so much Tom!

  36. Torley Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    C’mon testing testing what will hopefully show up as my NEW gravatar… *awaits*

  37. Jungkeuny Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing

  38. powwow Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing my avatar

  39. ZappoMan Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    If this works, I will be happy… Tom’s explanation certainly makes sense!

  40. Kirsten Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    …

  41. bluepanjeet Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing

  42. LUCIana Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    great TOM!!!thanks!!!

  43. Mindy Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Test.

  44. Klaus Seistrup Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing…

  45. Sly Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Just checking if it works.

  46. bennie Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    thx for this beautiful lil work!

  47. p o i s o n e d * Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Hi there,
    I tried several times to signup for a Gravatar account but every time I get this message :
    «Application error

    Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html»

    Quite frustrating because I would really want to use Gravatar for my comments on my blog !
    I also tried to see if I could get the answer by meself but the Help page seems to be “underway”.

    Thanks for reading this.

  48. dawnh Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Still not work!

  49. takeo Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    badass

  50. Sabine Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    My gravatar has stopped showing up in my blog comments (it just shows that blue on white gravatar icon) :( Now I’m trying to see if it works here. Let’s see…

  51. Help Now Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    What is the URL to pre-fill in the e-mail address?

    http://site.gravatar.com/signup?email=test = doesn’t work.
    http://site.gravatar.com/signup?e-mail=test = doesn’t work.
    http://site.gravatar.com/signup?mail=test = doesn’t work.

  52. campingLisaB Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing my gravatar

  53. marin Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing my gravatar

  54. Daniel Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Crop is not working properly with Firefox under Linux. It says it don’t work with my browser and I should try Firefox, even tho I already use Firefox (But on Linux, maybe your browser check is bugged)

  55. Bernard Doddema Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks for getting this fixed!!!!

  56. Alicia Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Gravatar!

  57. Benedikt Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Check, check, 1, 2, 3…

  58. Corrado Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Man, it’ll be nice if this works. A bit of ‘customer service’ in the form of an announcement a few weeks ago would’ve been nice.

    Glad it’s (apparently) fixed!

  59. Lapper Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Does it work!? Does it work?! Is Tom finally back? Testing…

  60. aoyoyo Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Not working at my site.

  61. Zanthina Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    check.

  62. Test Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Test

  63. matija Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing

  64. Balud Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Just to see if my gravatar will appear. I have registerd from 15th of Feb and no gravatar seen

  65. Kaos Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Me happen something strange. I can see avatars and my friend’s avatars but my friends cannot see their avatar.

  66. riza Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    something wrong, it’s only the blue g

  67. Wady Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    so cool

  68. The Mole Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    ..is it here?

  69. Todd Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing as well…

  70. Renee Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Apparently the site died… get a 403 error…

  71. gailv Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    It can show up here, but why not on blog?

  72. rude Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    teste

  73. Please Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Would be grand

  74. Ren Yushiro Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Wanna test too ’cause in my blog, it doesnt work

  75. Me Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Does it work?

  76. BCSEEATI Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Gravatar reassigned… testing…

  77. cmon gravatar Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    what’s wrong if it only works here

  78. PK Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Just a test to see if it is working here (what about an official test thread ;-))

  79. Ulf Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    test test test. Nope

  80. 800A Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Yeah! gravatars works in my blog!! great job Tom ;)

  81. silpheed Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    yay for gravatars! i’m implementing them in my blog as we speak, but i think i might have found a bug. i’ve deliberately given my gravatar a rating of X and set my src strings to accept PG or below only (with &rating=PG). i also specify a default avatar (properly url encoded of course), but that default avatar doesn’t show for my X rated gravatar, i just get the blue icon with the white g.

    the default avatar DOES work for invalid gravatar IDs and valid gravatar IDs with no picture associated, but not for gravatars that are rated too high. is this expected behaviour? am i going mad?

  82. Lizzie Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Hi, testing but mostly wondering why my gravatar is rated x when it should be rated G.
    Thanks to this it doesn’t show anywhere, could you fix it please?
    Thanks.

  83. testing Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Test.

  84. c.urdaneta Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks for the fix Tom
    Now my Gravatar works like a charm!

  85. Astorg Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Well, I’m really glad if its fixed at long last. Welcome back.

  86. Diane Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    This is a test.

  87. leila Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    siri e alemao

  88. Questan Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Tom: Will you sell Gravatar to Google? What guarantees do you give your users? Is it safe to implement? You never give any news.

  89. GeTa Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    ________

  90. Thomas Aylott Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    S3 is keen. We’re using that over at CrazyEgg for our screenshots.

  91. Chris Williams Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    The whole rating thing is a mess, whoever decided a) never even point out that there ARE ratings on gravatars anywhere in the signup process, b) to make the default rating X, and more importantly c) to make the UI for seeing what it is rated, and or setting the rating completely obtuse, should be shot.

    I’ve been wondering for ages why my gravatar didn’t show anywhere, just the BLUE G. Happened upon a post that mentioned ratings (never had heard of them). Stumble around here, and find that magically if I hover my mouse near my image, some cryptic X comes up. What’s that? I click on it, and it tells my I’m X rated. Choose ‘G’, and say OK. Test it. Still the BLUE G. Hmmm… so I select to make the same gravatar (now apparently G rated) the current one, and magically it works.

    How about some documentation and a BIG HUGE INDICATION OF WHAT THE RATING IS, AND HOW TO SET IT?

    Thanks,
    Chris

  92. felipe Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    ca marche ?!

  93. Barbra Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Does it work?

  94. Mark Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing.

  95. Ben-Inside Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Test

  96. crazybjörn Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing…

  97. ItISDeaD Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Gravatar is dead…

  98. Piggy Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Hmm… gravatar.com doesent seem to be working :S

  99. Mar Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    my gravatar doesn’t work

  100. Liisa Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing

  101. Utena Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Is it working now ?

  102. kristy Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    I have been trying to join all day today, and keep getting an error message. Just thought I’d mention it. You know. :)

  103. Mary Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Why my new gravatar dont show up??

    OMG ¬¬!!

  104. Remy Sharp Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Hi there,

    I’m consistently getting the following error when I try to add another email address to my account:

    Application error

    Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html

    Sorry I had to post this in the comments to a blog, but I couldn’t find any other way of notifying of the problem.

  105. Hell Paris Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Hope works!

  106. Somebody Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing! =P

  107. Jana Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    I only get the Blue G when I post to any sites…but my Gravatar is showing up in my account. Any clue why???

  108. ashton Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    i’m back to test.

  109. Jakub Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    This service is pretty cool.

  110. Jeff Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    People, Liisa is correct. At this time only JPEG graphics are working for some reason. If you want to add a new Gravatar, first make sure your image is saved as a .jpg file and then add it to gravatar.com.

  111. Mike Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Jana,

    The image you uploaded maybe to large in pixel size or file size that the site has set for allowed perams. Check with the site(s) that you go to and ask what their limitations are. They may even not know that their image convert program is not working possibly.

  112. Erik J. Barzeski Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Now it works. I went back into my profile and “re-confirmed” the current one. That seems to have properly forced a sync.

  113. S-King Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing

  114. Wayde Christie Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing.

  115. h0bbel Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Gravatars are back. Thanks!!

  116. Sad Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Help?

  117. Liesbeth Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    it still don’t work for me, this is what I see when I click on the button: this page is not availeble

  118. daphne Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    It still has not worked for me. What am I doing wrong?

  119. james Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing. Sorry for bothering you.

  120. tentirujo Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    not working :’(

  121. ping Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Checking my avatar…

  122. Fabric Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    At last bugfix

  123. hanzo Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Finally everything seems to be working!
    Joy!

  124. Barnim Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Schau mer mal, obs jetzt funktioniert … testing

  125. Jason Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Finally, back on :)

  126. Freddy Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    That sounds good!!!!

  127. welmar Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    test

  128. StarChild Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    I didn’t see a forum where I could ask this and there is no help available yet so I thought I’d try here and see if anyone could help me. For months I’ve been having the problem that no one’s avatars show up on my site. They used to work, and then just stopped working one day suddenly. Everyone just gets my default av. And I KNOW that many of those commenters have gravatars. At first I thought it was because of the new launch coming up, but gravatars on other blogs were fine. When I check the cache everyone has NO GRAVATAR(E). No amount of cache deleting or refreshing has fixed it. My local gravatar works fine. Just not the other ones. Has this happened to anyone else? Any thoughts on why this could be? It’s driving me crazy!

  129. blang Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    How can I recognize the default Gravatar image is being returned and decide in my blog to not show it - or in my case, use another image?

  130. ymode@ymode.cl Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing…

  131. Rob Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Nice one. Hopefully mine should start working soon……

    I signed up on Feb 16 and have not seen it working yet!

    Fingers crossed….

  132. chaoskaizer Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    its work fine. yeah

  133. Tatiana Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    how I can modify my password?

  134. buchin Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing gravatar

  135. Jeff Cristi Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing

  136. Cris Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Curious… it appears that when a default avatar is specified, the rating gets applied too strictly. I have a G rated avatar, and it shows up when the url string says rating=G, but when it says rating=PG, the default appears.

    I expect the rating specification to mean “this rating and below,” not “only this rating.” And that’s how it seems to work when no default is specified.

  137. @lun Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Yes it does :) ’bout time an all :D

  138. Eli Sand Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Not sure how long it’s supposed to take before the avatar is synced, but mine isn’t working after almost 24hrs. Also, the site randomly times out my requests (though the function actually gets performed, the browser just sits loading forever).

    I have also noticed some errors in your implementation code for PHP (and Perl as well). To begin, you are encoding the ampersand symbol in your URL when it should *NOT* be encoded since it is not data, but a variable separator in it’s intended use.

    I have made several fixes to your WordPress plugin as well - I’d like to give you the updated copy so just contact me on how I can do that.

  139. craig Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing

  140. markcas Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    also testing…

  141. Seb Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    test

  142. Pii Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Just a test

  143. Mat Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Well, since everyone is testing here, I might as well…

  144. Sascha A. Carlin Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    A more technical question: Why do you use Amazon S3 to spread the images in the first place?

    Why not rent another server and let this be the host and source for the two on the front end and sync via rsync?

  145. H.A.L. Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Is this working?

  146. Kiere Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    The blog seems to be online, but I went to the site.gravatar.com link it always times out with a 502 error. Anyone know anything about this?

  147. Roly Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Why this code not working??

    $email = “someone@somewhere.com”;
    $default = “http://www.somewhere.com/homestar.jpg”;
    $size = 40;

    You can construct your gravatar url with the following php code:

    $grav_url = “http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?
    gravatar_id=”.md5($email).
    “&default=”.urlencode($default).
    “&size=”.$size;

  148. Mladen Mihajlovic Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    png images definitely seem to be causing a problem. I uploaded a new avatar - linked it to my email - and the image has not changed in something like 3 days.

  149. Linda Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    I changed my gravatar yesterday and it was switching back and forth between my old and new most of the day. Today I went in and deleted my old one from the file and now my new one is not showing up at all. Mostly I use it in Haloscan comments. Is there something I need to do to clear old cookies or temp files or something to get it to work properly?

  150. Hatem Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    tesing again, seems nothing ? I have added my gravatar the first day the website launched maybe :( so long

  151. Guy Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Curious if my avatar does work here…

  152. JR Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Gravatars working but gravatar.com is returning a 503 since yesterday. Anyone know what’s up?

  153. Marie Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing my gravatar here too…

  154. balou Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Hello everyone :)
    On teste le gravatar hein ! Sorry, i am french because ?
    oui je me soigne …

  155. robin Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    I couldn’t agree more. Thanks for arcticle.

  156. Test again Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    test

  157. Pete Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing

  158. LivingPlus Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Test

  159. Justest Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Test

  160. afddsfasdasdfasdfasdfasdfasdfasdf Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    afsfasdf

  161. Ian Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    And does this work?

  162. Ponzi Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    @ Ian: Very good !

  163. Ian Quigley Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Please create a test page. I can’t get image link to work just yet. (Unless I post a comment here and look at the html source?)

  164. Wazungu Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Thanks for working on it - I’ll try the gravitar plugins now for my site. Have a good day!

  165. pierluigi Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    test.. and thanks for this service!

  166. Shane Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    I seem to still be having the wrong gravatar coming up - showing one that was deleted a day ago. If this is working then I should have a yellow background behind me.

    If it does work here - is there a known issue with the 2.62 Gravatars2 plugin for WordPress (http://zenpax.com/gravatars2/)?

    Regards,
    Shane.

  167. Lolete Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    test

  168. Nicki Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Gravatar svcs down? I haven’t been able to get to anything on this site except this blog all day. :P

  169. Name Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    … and the fucking retard dies again.

  170. 가우리 Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Server Error –;

  171. Reid Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    The main gravatar.com site is down, let alone svcs or subversion, or whatever. The server is saying:

    Service Temporarily Unavailable

    The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

    Additionally, a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

  172. thomasn528 Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing, testing.

  173. baron Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    are they back?

  174. nova Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    not so much

  175. Gerald Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Doesn’t work for me … i’ve reapplied my avatar multiple times, still the old one is shown.

  176. seriously_black Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Interesting problem. Glad you found it. I hope that means that gravatars will start working again soon.

  177. Ma Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing

  178. Nat Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Works great for me, good work, love the new features!

  179. paikia Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    testing again

  180. blackhat Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    nice

  181. Jenny Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Great!

  182. Aaron Powell Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Testing

  183. Elizabeth Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    Hi, my gravatar doesn’t show anywhere, the email is good & it’s rated g.
    Any help would be great, thanks.

  184. Joseph Crawford Says:
    March 2, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    i signed up and altered my site only to reverse the code ;( I found that my avatar was not showing properly, i am not sure what the case may be but at the URL http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=bf6bc93ab3eeef8996970fa8ac9895a3
    it shows the gravatar logo

  185. Mike Says:
    October 31, 2007 at 11:10 am

    just testing. thanks for a great service :)

  186. Test Says:
    December 3, 2007 at 2:30 am

    Test 12345

  187. Jane Says:
    December 4, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Test!

  188. LL Says:
    December 14, 2007 at 8:23 pm

    Hope this got fixed.

  189. Very Different Says:
    March 13, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    Thank you ..
    Known rebuilding.

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