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  • I've made it a lot clearer in your personal settings page now, also linking to a detailed post on why we chose it. Please go to http://www.scirra.com/me

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  • A lot of people have been asking how to use Gravatar, and why we use it.

    How does Gravatar work?

    Once you register an account with us, you also type in your email address. What then happens when someone views a webpage with your avatar on it, is our server securely hashes your email address, and sends the hash off to the Gravatar server.

    Take a look at my avatar for example, right click on it and view source. The image URL is:

    gravatar.com/avatar/fc216778f638c87af86a6241ca36b3a2

    The gobbledegook at the end is the hash of my email. No one will be able to tell what your email address is, we never send that raw data over to Gravatar!

    Now try clicking on that link:

    http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/fc216778f638c87af86a6241ca36b3a2

    If you don't have a Gravatar account, we display a default avatar. If you DO have a Gravatar account, it sends us back the avatar you chose!

    New to Gravatar?

    Registering on Gravatar is super easy and quick. Just click sign up, enter the same email address you signed up to this site with, and click the email confirmation link. You can then choose your avatar, and conveniently, it will also appear on a lot of other sites! One avatar to rule them all!

    Why did we choose it?

    There are a lot of benefits using Gravatar:

    • We don't need to server avatars, we save a lot of bandwidth!
    • We can automatically block offensive or non family safe images, currently the site only accepts PG or lower avatars
    • A lot of people already use Gravatar, and will like it's implementation on here
    • This site should load faster and resources downloaded from multiple locations can be downloaded in parallel
    • The gravatar API is really useful, it allows us to resize your avatar to whatever size we want (for different parts of the site) really easily

    I hope you all understand why we made this choice now, and see the benefits and usefullness of it all. We understand for some of you it's another thing to sign up for, but as users of Gravatar ourselves we found the whole process really quick and easy, and extremely convenient!

  • Thanks Lucid, I'm writing a quick post now in website forum explaining why we used it, which will be linked in the profile clearly.

  • Please clear cache/hard refresh. As per your comments, general font size on forum is reduced, and the table rows are alternating in colour.

  • Hi guys, made a change to your settings page, done some tests works for me let me know if you have any issues.

  • Should be resolved now, please let me know if this is not the case. It's a hard one to debug as I can't consistently reproduce it.

  • Glad you managed to get it up, I edited it a little to improve formatting some spelling/grammar, hope you don't mind.

    I think it's important to note that this is what is known as 'security through obscurity', there's a good write up on Wikipedia:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

    Do you think it might be worth mentioning this? I like the bit you wrote about the fact if someone wants your assets bad enough they can always get it (from recording, screen dumping), it might be good to reference the wikipedia article in regards to that, just a suggestion anyway :)

  • Hi The_Funny_Guy,

    I've reduced the tutorial submission minimum rep to 250 to allow you to post this under the tutorials part of the website if you wish! It should then reach more people and be more recognised and useful for other casual users as well.

    Tom

  • Yes, I am looking into this, sorry for the inconvenience!

  • We talked about this a bit me and Ash, it's not really reverse order but more 'newest first', I might make a site setting so users can flip it if they want though.

  • Thanks candescnce I will look into it.

  • Thanks, will look into it. It's not as scary as it looks, it's just the server trying to protect itself from funny looking URL's.

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