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Gravatar Blog
Company blog · blog.gravatar.comwebprogramming
Gravatar Blog is the company blog at blog.gravatar.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2008, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite Gravatar's blog post on identicons and MonsterIDs, the generated avatars used for people without a Gravatar, as an example of avatars made from browser variables.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
News and announcements
Most-linked posts?
- /2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-28
What Hacker News says?
People are bashing this for being 'pointless', but hey, so is the next great to-do list app you made in 48 hours. This is a fun little experiment. I can see an actual use for this. Look for example at Identicons, Wavatars, and MonsterIDs[1]. They all use browser variables to generate random avatars for use around the web, e.g. on blog comments. I imagine this could do something similar, and a nice colour palette is…
Comment linking /2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my/
on “Show HN: What colour is your IP address?”Submitted Gravatar, one year later as a story · 6 points
HN discussionThat's basically what Gravatar has recently adopted ( http://blog.gravatar.com/2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-an... ) for non-users, and it is equal parts tacky and useful. I'm not sold on the idea of something like this here, but even a very small icon (like 16x16 or smaller--very small) or bullet of color would would make threads easier to keep track of.
Comment linking /2008/04/22/identicons-monsterids-and-wavatars-oh-my/
on “The case for pictures next to usernames on Hacker News”Submitted Gravatar: Growth, Performance, and Pretty URLs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Battlefield 3 uses Gravatar as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gravatar.com rewritten from Ruby to PHP as a story · 2 points
HN discussion