Gravatar Beta Email Snafu (Fixed)

February 14, 2007 | Posted by Tom Werner

There was a bit of a problem (isn’t that what betas are for?) with the email sending facility that caused signups to fail. I’ve fixed the problem and it shouldn’t happen again. Sorry for the troubles, get back to those gravatars!

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81 Responses »

  1. monaxle Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Yay - it’s working now for me. Thanks Tom. Now I just have to make sense of the “simple” instructions for implementing this on my WP blog. If plugins are meant to assist the clueless then my brain has been been removed!

  2. Jowah Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I won’t mention the amazing speed increasing.
    Gravatar works just fine right now.
    My site and my wordpress are happy. Thank you♥

  3. Mai Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    thanks for fixing the sign up problem…

    im really happy now…

    thank you very much..

  4. S1ic3r Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Now it seems to work ;). Thanks!

  5. Siu Ray Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Oh , I fixed my problem after I clicked “Remove the gravatar from this email address” then re-choose my new gravatar image. My site show up new gravatar image finally.

  6. JDH Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I’d really like to take part in the beta.

  7. kainita Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I received it, THANKS!!

  8. Kyle Korleski Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I wonder if my gravatar is fixed yet…

  9. Alistair MacDonald Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I have not receive my invitation for the beta. :-(

  10. Paws Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    My confirmation mail didn’t arrive either :/

  11. Patrick Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Can’t get my activation to work, always getting a “Proxy Error”…

  12. Susanne Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I can’t upload a gravatar, this message ->

    Oh no! There was a problem!
    There was a problem creating your gravatar. We’ve logged the error and will look into it. Try uploading your gravatar again in a few minutes.

    Firfox and IE the same message! :-(

  13. mdsjack Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Quoting Susanne. Same error.

  14. Pendragon Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    It’s worked really well so far:)

  15. Thomas Arie Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Works for me without problem. How many gravatar can be assigned to an email? Can we have something like: “You can upload up to X gravatar”? Or, is it unlimited? Thanks!

  16. Hadret Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Sweet ;)

  17. Reyson Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    testing 2..

  18. suleiman Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Nope, I’m still not getting my mail..

  19. bubazoo Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    This is a test to see if my avatar uploaded. Am having problems with the avatar uploader thingy, uploader from my computer won’t work at all, and over the internet, every image I try gives me a size too big error, 40×40 is bigger then 0×0 that will not fly, error. then, I press the back button on my browser, and hit cancel, the image shows up in my list, but the image is cropped. cuts off part of my head, still buggy yet. Good test run though :)

  20. Amkiel Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I don’t know how to “select a gravatar below to assign to this email address”. I’ve got the image available but I can’t link it to my email.

  21. Catherine Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Si, malto grazie, Signori!

    And Happy Valentine’s Day :)

  22. Kim Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Still not working right for me.

  23. gabrielle Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    thanks it wouldnt work before

  24. Sefik Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    :( taky nedoslo

  25. Olivier Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Quoting Susanne too. Uploading from my hd won’t work!

  26. Michael G Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    For those of you that have not received your invitations, if you’re using Gmail check your spam box, which is where mine ended up.

    I too am now having upload issues.

  27. Mindy Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    My first comment disappeared.

  28. Maddum Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I have not receive invitation to this page :-(

  29. Dave Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Email went into gmail spam. Uploading from hard drive returned this error:

    Oh no! There was a problem!
    There was a problem creating your gravatar. We’ve logged the error and will look into it. Try uploading your gravatar again in a few minutes.

    IE 6.

  30. Alicia Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I found TWO problems:

    1.- The confirmation email for a new account was rated as Spam by Gmail.

    2.- The creation for a new gravatar always sent me an error if my image was already 80×80px or 400×400px, it only worked when I sent a 800×600 image, and it was cropped whith a little of blur.

  31. Curiosa Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I´m still waiting for my gravtar to show up when i write on blogs

  32. Sakke Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Cool this gravatar really works! Thumbs up…

  33. help Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I tried to change my gravatar, now it won’t add either one.

    Also, my new gravatar is way tamer than my old one…yet it gets X!!! The other got an R!!! What’s going on??

  34. Penta Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I’ve tried a few times with my email, and I’m still not receiving the invitation. It has no spam, and all mails come directly into my server, so I don’t know what could happen.
    I tried with a gmail account and I received it in spam, but I don’t use that mail. Any chance of fixing it?

  35. ANtonio Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Hey…there is a problem in the web that doesn’t allow me to select the specific gravatar for my email..thanxs

  36. Chiqui Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    The Assign function doesn’t work with IE 7.0. Works fine in Firefox

  37. Norbert Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    First of all: a really BIG thx to you!
    The “Upload from harddrive” issue still exists, but only if the image is smaller than 180×180px! For testing I created a 80×80 JPG picture and painted a white border with 50px width around it. Upload and crop is fine in IE7 and Firefox 2.0.0.1.
    Once again: great work!

  38. Nick Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Awesome! Works great! I’ve got my gravatar showing up on my site as well as my visitors. Thanks!

  39. theUg Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Yea, I don’t get the mail either. Since I couldn’t change the e-mail address on my old GRAvatar, I tried to reg for the new one, but I cannot. I tried «forgotten password» form with no luck as well.

  40. jennifer Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Thank you, Tom, for getting Gravatar back up and running. I am having a problem uploading and/or displaying animated GIFs. This one shows as movable in my Gravatar reserve, however, on blogs, he is stationary. Another one I uploaded does not even show the animation. Is this a temporary situation? They worked in the past. Thanks again.

  41. alex Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    why wont my avatar show up as assigned to my email address?

  42. sly Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    crop tool is really kool.

  43. nauj Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Estoy probando el Gravatar. =)

  44. Beta Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    testando!!

  45. Suburban Mum Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Could only assign the gravatar to the email address in Firefox, not IE7, but now it’s done. Thanks!

  46. roderic Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    just to know if my gravatar works…

  47. Daniel Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    My Gravatar works - maybe?

  48. Michael Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Not sure if mine is working either?

  49. Corrado Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    No gravatar here; signup looks to be working just fine, but no gravatar image anywhere. :(

  50. Dru Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Hello I submitted my payment for the premimum service but still cannot access that???
    that ??

    Thanks, Dru

  51. Don Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Great job on the new site, Tom. Finally, an end to the frustrations!

    Nice work!

  52. Letícia Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Test my gravatar !

  53. Lily Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I agree, signup, cropping and confirmation all work fine, but avatar doesn’t show up.

  54. mario Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    why my avatar not showing?

  55. ashton Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    yo!

  56. Dennis Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Hey Tom,

    Here is what the website http://www.mmahq.com has to say about our non-working gravatars…

    @DENNIS and BV

    you can see that your gravatar isn’t working by going to this link:

    http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=b4f4e429560b426605ed234ba6a27577

    that is the link for the email address you use. So either you don’t have a gravatar setup correctly on their website, or its a problem on their end. nothing that I can do.

    @BV

    same thing with you dude. here is your link

    http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=ec6bfd1208375ed9b5e47d1f8fb5a83c

    nothing comes back but the generic icon

  57. Kip Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    GRAVATARS2 WORDPRESS PLUGIN WORKS!!!
    http://zenpax.com/gravatars2/

    Now, the gravatar.com service… well… it sometimes works.

  58. ashton2 Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    test

  59. me again Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    …

  60. cetetorunu Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    testtt

  61. kiNg Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    testttttttttt

  62. kx Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Let’s see if it works…

  63. Sir Henry Casingbroke Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    testing

  64. Utom Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    My gravatar!

  65. Dunlop Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I hope everything works now

  66. lemongreentea Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    testing :)

  67. LifEndz Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Testing

  68. lee Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    test 1

  69. xyz Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    testing

  70. SINK Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    cool

  71. Rude Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    test

  72. gailv Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    testing

  73. Sad Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Fix didn’t work for me.

  74. andy Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    thanks, honey!

  75. leticia Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    test

  76. hanzo Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    sorry to be bugging… but I still get the same problem.
    won’t let me register… tried different browsers, different email adresses… different times of the day…

    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

  77. PabloEsc Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Testing 1,2,3 :)

  78. m3rma1d Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    I just tried to (finally) register… I’m all sad ‘cos I got 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

  79. Russell Says:
    February 14, 2007 at 5:24 am

    Is mine working?

  80. Jac Says:
    December 3, 2007 at 3:41 am

    YAY!!

  81. David Says:
    January 10, 2008 at 8:39 pm

    Testing mine too

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