Unexpected change of station/account Mugshot/Avatar

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My persoal pic has been removed from anything.satnogs.org and replaced by a semi-inverted letter G.
Whereas everything.libre.space retains my chosen ‘mugshot.’
Why, and how to fix it, please?

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Do you use the same primary email address at https://community.libre.space/u/m0roj/preferences/account and https://network.satnogs.org/accounts/email/ ?

The rotated G comes from Gravatar.

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Yes I do. Although I did add a second one recently, but not set as primary.
I’ve now deleted it. So I’ll wait and see if it changes back.
Thanks and regards.

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The Gravatar has still not reverted to my own image and is still showing on satnogs.org
I can see no way to change it on satnogs.org and Libre.space is showing as being correct.

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The image used on satnogs.org can be changed by creating an account at Gravatar. That’s how I do it - for both satnogs.org and libre.space (and at least 23 other sites I have an account on). Makes it easy to update the image in one place and have it reflect on multiple sites.

However, I don’t think a Gravatar account should be required for satnogs.org. Maybe the Libre Space folks have some insight?

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I’m not a fan of building out Libre infrastructure using a proprietary service. Would be best if Gravitar was dropped entirely. (And Google analytics, etc…)

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Looks like maybe this commit:

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OK guys. Vanity loses. But thanks for your interest.

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Yes this is the commit. The previous library was using gravatar or you could upload a separate one. Unfortunately this library wasn’t maintained and it kept back the development and critical updates, for that reason and until a new library is found, we are going to use just the requests on gravatar for avatars in Network and DB.

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I like the use of Gravatar, nice implementation :+1:

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But you’re sending our data to Gravatar which does tracking. It would be better to have no avatars than introduce proprietary parts into the system.

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That’s a valid concern, I’ve created this issue to handle it.

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It seems like community.libre.space already proxies Gravatar images, which probably means Gravatar will not get private data from the visitor.

This is my setting:
image

and the url fetched for my avatar is https://community.libre.space/user_avatar/community.libre.space/mfalkvidd/240/3418_2.png

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There are links directly to the gravatar embedded in network.satnogs.org.

You can also ctrl-u the web page to see the link. FWIW, it also pulls from fastly (CDN), mapbox (perhaps Open Street maps would be better), and various pages use google analytics.

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