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also, Remarkbox looks nice


Thanks! Please add yourself to the beta list, I'm launching another group this weekend!


Super cool! I like the SVG support part


Absolutely, I've played around with this. There are tons of open source libraries to determine gender from name. Obviously it cannot be 100% correct, but it can provide a guess


Thank you! :)


Haha, they're so great!

There's also this one: http://avatars.adorable.io


In regard to latest edit with Twitter

I think it's interesting how much thought goes into default avatars, and that it can be used as a marketing tactic. Thanks for providing link to Twitter as well. Guess I'll have to think more about it in the future.


Yeah, it absolutely is (ui-avatars). I think its a neat little think to act as fallback for gravatar, but I totally agree that it's overkill


Wow, I expected something else. That is actually interesting!


Thanks you!

Honestly? Nothing really. Well, you don't have to think about the code part but besides that? Nothing. Actually it would be more performant to use CSS and HTML (or SVG?) to generate avatars. I have a core package (used to generate the initials), and if used that with html, it would be far better.

I use the service for our internal products, as gravatar fallbacks


Solid points :D Sadly theres not much I can do (I think?) to make people believe that there is privacy.

I guess generating them locally (or using CSS) would be the best option for anyone concerned with privacy


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