Gravatar is a proprietary service that adds trackers

aschrijver · August 12, 2021, 5:02pm

Yeah, that sucks. At least I commented to

A local alternative to gravatar

opened 02:27PM - 05 Jul 20 UTC

feature request needs discussion

**What's the problem this feature will solve?** Currently users *have to*[1] ha…ve a gravatar account in order to change their profile pictures, which then requires a wordpress account. That is way too much third-party accounts for something as simple as changing your profile picture. **Describe the solution you'd like** Ideally users should be able to add either links on image files to pypi, with some basic cropping to fit the avatar size of the website. And there would be a handful of default pictures from which we can choose even if we choose not to upload a custom avatar. **Additional context** Even if the described solution is too much work, then, at least a basic image upload with automatic cropping to the center to fit the image would be far better than the only option being gravatar. [1]: If this is not required and I couldn't find how to change my profile picture without gravatar, pardon me. If this is the case, I think it is not obvious from the UI, but from the other issues I've read, I *think* gravatar is a must have to be able to change the avatar.

For Docker Hub I couldn’t find a good entry, and even their contact form was blocked by my ad-blocker.