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Feb 21st, 2025

• dark theme

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• it looks like they've changed what gravatar does

• it works like a linktree or carrd or whatever now

• so it's not just avatars it's a whole bio

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• you can receive payments in crypto through your gravatar bio

• and it just asks you to put in your address without any middleman

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• it lets you do custom crypto too

• honestly based

• gravatar is based now

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• you can link all these websites as your social

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• you can just do a custom link too

• but fwiw you can pull profiles from gravatar to like wordpress or like i could pull them to my forum

• and never have to write any user profile stuff separately

• it'd get their avatars and links and social media etc from their gravatar

  Gravatar is a service by Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, Pocket Casts, Day One, Beeper, WooCommerce, and other popular web services. We are passionate about open-source and making the web a more accessible place.

• huh

  > Rate Limits
  > The Profiles API is free to use, and its rate limits are customizable based on your needs. While the default limits below are set to prevent misuse, allowing you to begin testing the API right away, you can apply for much higher limits to accommodate specific usage requirements for no additional costs. Simply reach out to us and describe your usecase and needs.
  > Default rate limits:
  > Unauthenticated requests are limited to 100 per hour.
  > Authenticated requests are limited to 1000 per hour.
  > You will see error code 429 for too many requests.

  > Take into account that Avatars API requests do not count towards the limits mentioned above. These limits only apply to the Profiles endpoint.
  > Using an API key is always recommended, and will give you:

  > Higher rate limits (1000 vs 100 requests per hour)
  > Access to additional endpoints, including
  > Links,
  > Registration and last edit timestamps,
  > Contact info,
  > Payment and wallet info,
  > and Gallery images

• looks like i should be able to pull most of the info off the card

• i think it does give the full info

• and it's all in json

• it even gives the donate links and crypto wallet addresses

• and i don't need to ask the user for their email address

• since it can just pull it from their gravatar username

• which is a plus

  > URL Parameters:
  profileIdentifier [required]: The identifier for the profile, which can be a SHA256 hash of the email or a Gravatar profile URL slug (ie. gravatar.com/slug).

• 1000 requests per hour should be enough as long as i pull and save the profile and only request an update periodically