Use the Beta Site Now!
February 12, 2007 | Posted by Tom Werner
I’m up in San Francisco without decent internet access, so I wanted to get the beta out to my faithful readers.
You can use the beta right now at:
Send any bug reports or thoughts to tom@gravatar.com. Enjoy!
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_ck_ Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Bug report:
It will not allow me to upload from my hard drive. Gives an error on any image type after upload.
I was able to upload via URL but then when it went to crop mode it kept throwing an error “80×80 is larger than 0×0 and that’s not going to fly”
Last but not least, gif transparency is lost after upload?
Arjan Eising Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
For me it just worked fine
One note, the Gravatar logo on the bottom of the homepage…
kainita Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Yuhuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!
Betty Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
YAY!!
Miguel Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
YUPIII! Finally, the Gravatar’s blog is here!
Waiting for centuries… lol
Gaco Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Excellent!!…
Bachi Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
It works!! It works!!!
Rosano Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
This is so confusing. Your interface links to options only available in a paid account even though I don’t have one. You should have a separate layout for people that can only have one email and gravatar at a time, which is most of us. The way it is now is going to be annoying for many people.
malde Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
works fine! great stuff
Sascha Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
W00t!
Keith Petrus Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Seems to be working great. Thanks for your hard work.
twisted dog Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Nice job! The interface is beautiful.
Matt Oakes Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Took me a while to find the delete button but it worked eventually.
kate Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Hooray!
Oscar Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Excelent job. Congrats!!!!
caschy Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Yeeeessss!!!!!!!!
Dave Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
cool ::!!
Jenn Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Well, it let me upload a picture, but I couldn’t save it or anything. Site looks great though. Maybe I’ll try again…
marcoss Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
It was about time.
Whick Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Love it!
Corinne Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Fantastic, everything looks great so far.
Luke Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Cool! It works!
martin Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
hi… i can not assigen the gravatar to the email….
Chris Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Good to have you back, really missed Gravatar.
Thanks for your good work.
Tony2Nice Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Sweet, everything went swimmingly. One thing, though: when it goes to the crop action for my image, it has a black background. But my image also has a black background, so I could hardly see what was going on. A small nitpick, sure.
Glad to have you back!
Mitchell Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I can’t upload from my hard drive, I get errors. And when I upload from a URL, I get another error, but it says there’s a gravatar in my /emails thing. But it doesn’t show the picture of the actual avatar. Maybe I’ll try with a different browser (I’m using Firefox right now)
Borghal Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
It worked like a charm with me. There are some minor adjustments needed; I’m sending those over the email. Good job, Tom!
Red Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Uhm… I don’t like the way to change avatar with free accounts. You have to un-register avatar, then you have to click on a cross that appaer on the icon when you go with the mouse on it, then yo have to upload a new image, then you have to activate it….
I think that the 50% of yoers of my blog will not be able to understant it…
Pendragon Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Hmm… something I need to say something monumental… Mary had a little lamb…;)
Well, if Thomas Edison can get away with it.
Alenônimo Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
That “pay for more” is annoying me. Why don’t you create another interface for free accounts, with messages offering better accounts instead of giving upgrade$ messages at “add more” links?
I don’t now… It seems like you’re deceiving users someway, or at least making the site “just for the money”. I won’t support Gravatar on my sites that way.
If money is your problem, I hope Google buy your site soon.
Andre Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
yep
Blui Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Can you disable the “Upgrade Now for only $10 a year ” in the Beta-Version?
Otherwise we cant test the “more-mail/more-picture”-Version
CHESHiRE Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Hello,
first time I recognized this Gravatar thing signing up was disabled. But I decided to wait because I wanted to know how it works. I looked forward to this day, signed up, made my gravatar. But ist doesn’t work. It doesn’t work even in my very own blog (wordpress).
The image URL that is returned by the gravatar() function links to that blue Gravatar logo. And the default picture I specified is not shown.
Well, maybe it does not work properly because it is currently a beta version. So I’ll still will look forward to…
Sorry if the English is that bad but it’s not my mother tongue. I hope you understand…
kevin Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
OY
Kyle Korleski Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
My gravatar won’t update. Damn!
Yoshi Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Sweet! Everything looks like it’s working, although I did have a problem uploading my avatar using firefox. :/
Brotha Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Ok, that’s great! But I have a doubt. My gravatar is there, under the e-mail address, but it does not appear in comments yet. Is that normal? Thanks.
juncos Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
woOow!!! ya era hora!!, ya teniamos tiempo esperando poder sacar nuestra cuenta de Gravatar, la verdad me dio flojera comentar en ingles asi que se aguantan y lo leen en español, de todos modos se que hay mucha gente de habla español.
Muchas felicidades al equipo de Gravatar por esta nueva etapa que estan a punto de iniciar, nuestros mejores deseos desde Bitslab.net desde mexico
membrive Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Works fine.
Paul Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I’m getting an Application Error in both Safari and Firefox. I don’t know what it means?
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
Bjoern Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
experienced the same problem.
Stephen Davies Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Won’t allow me to upload from my hard drive.
Glad it’s back though!
Warren Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Alot of people seem to be getting this error when signing up.
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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
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Tarellel Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
And community of global identities unite. Yah! The new clean layout is very nice, great work.
Dirk Ginader Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Trackback:
Nach einer (sehr langen Pause) wird es wieder Bunt auf den Blogs dieser Welt. Gravatar.com ist wieder offen. Nach der geschlossenen Beta-Phase der letzten Wochen hat die Seite gestern Ihre Pforten wieder für alle geöffnet.
Allen, die mich in den letzten…
LapinLove404 Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Can’t Sign-up : Change this error message for exceptions thrown outside of an action (like in Dispatcher setups or broken Ruby code) in public/500.html
Gatze Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Always getting an error when trying to sign up! ::
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
Maerim Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Yeah, I cannot sign up:
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
Reyson Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
mmmm not working!!!
(((((((
Gmartintin Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Some friends have problem to make link between their adress and their picture : there is a javascript error
Amjad Mahfouz Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Great Design
but the problem is that i can sign up
it gives an error page
Andy Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
love it! But the logo in the footer is to pixelated IMHO
Hang Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Great to hear this news, hope to see that the blogger widget will release soon!
aBitGone Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Yay! Great news!
Gluek Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
On page http://site.gravatar.com/signup, when I entered an email and click on “Signup” button:
adhisimon Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
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
Cotu Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
ya era hora! la verdad!! tengo ganas de cambiar my gravatar de una vez
Leonardo Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Great work!, worked like a charm in a WinXP + Firefox machine, one suggestion… state the “default” size for the gravatars (80×80 px) somewehere and when the user uploads a picture 80×80 skip the crop section.
Livia Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I, too get that Application error others get….
Shuugo Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
It works if you already have an account.
Password reminder and Signup it’s broken
Shamini Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I just tried to sign up, and I get the same error as the others;
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
killecup Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
great site! really simple but effectiv!
just one suggestion: get the size of the gravatar-default image smaller! you will save traffic
Harleycooter Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
All I hear is blah blah blah geek blah geek. Just make it user friendly for tech tards like me. Thanks:)
2699 Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Hi!
Found in IE7, Javascript suggest a mistake!
在IE7下设置邮件头像时，Javascript提示错误！
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行:149
字符:5
代码:0
错误:’firstChild’ 为空或不是对象
网址:http://site.gravatar.com/emails
EdgarJ Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Like the others who couldn’t sign up, I’ve tried to sign up using IE, Firefox and Opera to no avail. But the new version’s set to be launched on 15 Feb 2007. Hope that by that time, signing up would already be a breeze.
Celia Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Please include me in the beta as well. Thanks
OT Labs Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Bug report: requesting new password from “Forgot password” form leads to error page:
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
Aeon Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
“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.”
The site is down… :’(
Daniel Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
That’s so sad: all those troubles… I’ve hoped you could revive Gravatar!
L'Orso Ciccione Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
For me the site doesn’t respond.
I want my gravatar! Sigh! Sigh!
ghostbar Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Isn’t working for me, gives a 503… :/
jack&horror Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
gravatar sign up doesn t work fine…what is the problem?
bubazoo Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
gravatar site isn’t working for me either.
I get The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems
Tom Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Thanks a lot ! Works great !!! Cool to have gravatar back …
Malin Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Nice beta! I understand that you want to limit the amount of gravatars in a free account but as of now you can get around it but pressing the back button in your browser and upload another one (by this I mean from a URL and not from the hard drive, haven’t tried that) and another one and so on….
I have now 6 gravatars in my account… So you might want to look in to that…
~A~ Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
yea!
Ike Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Hey Tom… just as an aside:
Where can you be in San Francisco and NOT have decent internet access?
Enrique Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Just signed. Waiting for my link to set my gravatar….
mike Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
nice
theddy Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Absolutly great! Thanks a lot.
Alan Orozco Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Awesome!
Thanks a lot!
Yod'ah Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
This version rocks! Thanks! Works fine except for my newly changed avatar that won’t appear on websites: the old one remains…
wites Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I love the interface and all but i guess the most important upgrade would have been avatars showing up where it should be.
sumomo-3- Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Yeah~ Finally, it opened!
Federico Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Realmente funciona?
Lily Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
After two days my avatar still does not show up!?
dealbhadair Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Cool photo cropping tool, and a great interface in general.
However, I set up my gravatar two days ago, and it’s still not showing on tv.winelibrary.com!
Any ideas???
Brian Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Got gravaters on my site. Pretty spiffy.
Moonaire Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
nice
Sylke Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Pssst….
Melina Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Cadê o avatar????
Corrado Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Bug report:
It doesn’t fucking work.
Gravatar 2.0 makes Microsoft code look bulletproof.
Way to kill a good idea, Tom. >:(
jmgh Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
great!!
Sir Henry Casingbroke Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Test
Roymoses Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
http://israblog.nana.co.il/272519 come in here everyone… yeah (: finally
2.0 sweet how do i get it work? ^^ i didn’t understand how i can use it in my weblog
xyz Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Testing
gg Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
hh
gailv Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
Two days,why my gravatar still does not show up?
Marinz Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
test per vedere se effettivamente funziona
Jacob Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
err..
Paul Irish Says:
February 12, 2007 at 6:52 pm
$3 a year would be a lot more enticing. Or at least run a promotion. $10 is unrealistic for an icon.
soulWasted Says:
November 10, 2007 at 8:31 pm
that’s fine
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December 10, 2007 at 10:44 pm
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callmed Says:
December 11, 2007 at 4:27 am
hello world
Just testing Says:
January 30, 2008 at 11:07 am
Just checking if the picture shows up
One more Says:
January 30, 2008 at 11:08 am
Sorry about this I’m having a bug issue…
sesebian Says:
April 14, 2008 at 7:27 pm
thanks