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Gravatar integration / Avatar upload #66

Open brenthaertlein opened 5 years ago

brenthaertlein commented 5 years ago

Allow users to upload a custom avatar.

Optionally, allow a default or "chooseable" integration with Gravatar: https://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/

calebmer commented 5 years ago

I wanted to pair program this with @mdgozza to get him into the codebase 🙂

Gravatar integration is going to be a pretty easy first backend task.

Uploading avatars will require a bit of thought about how we want to do file uploads.

calebmer commented 5 years ago

I’d like this work to also include making a better “null” state for people with no avatars. Currently they’re just a grey circle but we could use the first letter of their account name.

brenthaertlein commented 5 years ago

Yeah something like that (which I think is the default in Material Design), or the Slack/Github "randomly generated" avatar... just to allow users to be distinguishable from each other even if they haven't set an avatar.

brenthaertlein commented 5 years ago

Also and I'm not personally advocating for this but there's obviously Bitmoji as well.