Use the Beta Site Now!

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:

http://site.gravatar.com/

Send any bug reports or thoughts to tom@gravatar.com. Enjoy!


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107 responses to “Use the Beta Site Now!”

  1. _ck_ Avatar
    _ck_

    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 0x0 and that’s not going to fly”

    Last but not least, gif transparency is lost after upload?

  2. Arjan Eising Avatar

    For me it just worked fine 🙂 One note, the Gravatar logo on the bottom of the homepage…

  3. kainita Avatar

    Yuhuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!

  4. Miguel Avatar

    YUPIII! Finally, the Gravatar’s blog is here!

    Waiting for centuries… lol

  5. Gaco Avatar

    Excellent!!…

  6. Bachi Avatar
    Bachi

    It works!! It works!!!

  7. Rosano Avatar

    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.

  8. malde Avatar
    malde

    works fine! great stuff 🙂

  9. Keith Petrus Avatar
    Keith Petrus

    Seems to be working great. Thanks for your hard work.

  10. twisted dog Avatar
    twisted dog

    Nice job! The interface is beautiful.

  11. Matt Oakes Avatar

    Took me a while to find the delete button but it worked eventually.

  12. kate Avatar
    kate

    Hooray!

  13. Oscar Avatar
    Oscar

    Excelent job. Congrats!!!!

  14. caschy Avatar

    Yeeeessss!!!!!!!!

  15. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    cool ::!!

  16. Jenn Avatar
    Jenn

    Well, it let me upload a picture, but I couldn’t save it or anything. Site looks great though. Maybe I’ll try again…

  17. marcoss Avatar

    It was about time.

  18. Corinne Avatar

    Fantastic, everything looks great so far.

  19. Luke Avatar

    Cool! It works!

  20. martin Avatar
    martin

    hi… i can not assigen the gravatar to the email….

  21. Chris Avatar

    Good to have you back, really missed Gravatar.

    Thanks for your good work.

  22. Tony2Nice Avatar

    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!

  23. Mitchell Avatar

    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)

  24. Borghal Avatar

    It worked like a charm with me. There are some minor adjustments needed; I’m sending those over the email. Good job, Tom!

  25. Red Avatar
    Red

    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… 😦

  26. Pendragon Avatar
    Pendragon

    Hmm… something I need to say something monumental… Mary had a little lamb…;)
    Well, if Thomas Edison can get away with it.

  27. Alenônimo Avatar

    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. 😛

  28. Andre Avatar
  29. Blui Avatar

    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

  30. CHESHiRE Avatar
    CHESHiRE

    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… 😉

  31. Kyle Korleski Avatar

    My gravatar won’t update. Damn!

  32. Yoshi Avatar

    Sweet! Everything looks like it’s working, although I did have a problem uploading my avatar using firefox. :/

  33. Brotha Avatar
    Brotha

    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.

  34. juncos Avatar

    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

  35. Paul Avatar

    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

  36. Bjoern Avatar

    experienced the same problem.

    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

  37. Stephen Davies Avatar

    Won’t allow me to upload from my hard drive. 😦

    Glad it’s back though!

  38. Warren Avatar

    Alot of people seem to be getting this error when signing 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
    —————————————

  39. Tarellel Avatar

    And community of global identities unite. Yah! The new clean layout is very nice, great work.

  40. Dirk Ginader Avatar

    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…

  41. LapinLove404 Avatar

    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

  42. Gatze Avatar

    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

  43. Maerim Avatar

    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

  44. Reyson Avatar

    mmmm not working!!! :-((((((((

  45. Gmartintin Avatar
    Gmartintin

    Some friends have problem to make link between their adress and their picture : there is a javascript error

  46. Amjad Mahfouz Avatar

    Great Design
    but the problem is that i can sign up
    it gives an error page 😦

  47. Andy Avatar

    love it! But the logo in the footer is to pixelated IMHO

  48. Hang Avatar

    Great to hear this news, hope to see that the blogger widget will release soon!

  49. aBitGone Avatar

    Yay! Great news!

  50. Gluek Avatar

    On page http://site.gravatar.com/signup, when I entered an email and click on “Signup” button:

    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

  51. adhisimon Avatar

    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

  52. Cotu Avatar
    Cotu

    ya era hora! la verdad!! tengo ganas de cambiar my gravatar de una vez

  53. Leonardo Avatar

    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.

  54. Livia Avatar
    Livia

    I, too get that Application error others get…. 😦

  55. Shuugo Avatar

    It works if you already have an account.

    Password reminder and Signup it’s broken

  56. Shamini Avatar

    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

  57. killecup Avatar

    great site! really simple but effectiv!
    just one suggestion: get the size of the gravatar-default image smaller! you will save traffic 😉

  58. Harleycooter Avatar
    Harleycooter

    All I hear is blah blah blah geek blah geek. Just make it user friendly for tech tards like me. Thanks:)

  59. 2699 Avatar

    Hi!
    Found in IE7, Javascript suggest a mistake!
    在IE7下设置邮件头像时,Javascript提示错误!
    ——————-
    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

  60. EdgarJ Avatar

    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.

  61. Celia Avatar
    Celia

    Please include me in the beta as well. Thanks 🙂

  62. OT Labs Avatar

    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

  63. Aeon Avatar

    “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… 😥

  64. Daniel Avatar

    That’s so sad: all those troubles… I’ve hoped you could revive Gravatar!

  65. L'Orso Ciccione Avatar

    For me the site doesn’t respond.
    I want my gravatar! Sigh! Sigh!

  66. ghostbar Avatar

    Isn’t working for me, gives a 503… :/

  67. jack&horror Avatar

    gravatar sign up doesn t work fine…what is the problem?

  68. bubazoo Avatar

    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

  69. Tom Avatar
    Tom

    Thanks a lot ! Works great !!! Cool to have gravatar back …

  70. Malin Avatar

    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…

  71. Ike Avatar

    Hey Tom… just as an aside:

    Where can you be in San Francisco and NOT have decent internet access?

  72. Enrique Avatar

    Just signed. Waiting for my link to set my gravatar….

  73. mike Avatar
  74. theddy Avatar

    Absolutly great! Thanks a lot.

  75. Alan Orozco Avatar

    Awesome!

    Thanks a lot!

  76. Yod'ah Avatar

    This version rocks! Thanks! Works fine except for my newly changed avatar that won’t appear on websites: the old one remains…

  77. wites Avatar

    I love the interface and all but i guess the most important upgrade would have been avatars showing up where it should be.

  78. sumomo-3- Avatar

    Yeah~ Finally, it opened!

  79. Federico Avatar

    Realmente funciona?

  80. Lily Avatar
    Lily

    After two days my avatar still does not show up!?

  81. dealbhadair Avatar
    dealbhadair

    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???

  82. Brian Avatar

    Got gravaters on my site. Pretty spiffy.

  83. Sylke Avatar
    Sylke

    Pssst….

  84. Melina Avatar
    Melina

    Cadê o avatar????

  85. Corrado Avatar
    Corrado

    Bug report:

    It doesn’t fucking work.

    Gravatar 2.0 makes Microsoft code look bulletproof.

    Way to kill a good idea, Tom. 😡

  86. Sir Henry Casingbroke Avatar
    Sir Henry Casingbroke

    Test

  87. Roymoses Avatar

    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

  88. xyz Avatar
    xyz

    Testing

  89. gailv Avatar
    gailv

    Two days,why my gravatar still does not show up?

  90. Marinz Avatar
    Marinz

    test per vedere se effettivamente funziona

  91. Jacob Avatar
    Jacob

    err..

  92. Paul Irish Avatar

    $3 a year would be a lot more enticing. Or at least run a promotion. $10 is unrealistic for an icon.

  93. soulWasted Avatar

    that’s fine 😉

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  95. callmed Avatar
    callmed

    hello world

  96. Just testing Avatar
    Just testing

    Just checking if the picture shows up

  97. One more Avatar
    One more

    Sorry about this I’m having a bug issue…

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