The npm profile picture only supports Gravatar about www HOT 11 CLOSED

Puzzles me as well - makes no sense having an external service for this. At least give us an option to hide the ugly image, please.

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It actually bothered me when I went to change my display picture, and saw that I had to create an account on Gravatar, for which in turn I had to create an account on WordPress. npm is for developers, and I'm pretty sure devs don't like this kind of functionality.

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Why did npm choose this tedious way rather than, maybe, a simple Sign in via Google?

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Are we getting closer to that day? 🤔

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Would it be possible to consider re-opening this? #225 and #143 are the same issue. I also find this to be a little tedious — I don't plan to sign up on wordpress.com so that I can use gravatar so that I can change my picture on npm.

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Hey, all.

Sorry, this is still deep in the "updates we'd eventually love to get to", but for now - Gravatar is our option. We have multiple things coming down the pipeline, this year likely, that will ease our transition out of where we are - but for now, this is our trade-off.

Thanks.

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@Siilwyn thanks for the issue. It’s a good idea, but unfortunately, due to the tiny size of our team, this isn’t on the roadmap. Hopefully someday we’ll be able to revisit it.

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@jefflembeck Any chance we will see this in the near future?

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@jefflembeck at least provide a way to have a default option. Or remove the current image.

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Maybe use a microservice like unavatar? Would be a pretty easy alternative to implement I think.

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Sponsored?
If so, I may have to give up...

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