Dealing with Gravatar

Posted by tobi — 03:56 PM Dec 15

We use the gravatar service on many occasions across the web applications of jadedpixel. The service recently became ridiculously slow however so we needed to find a solution.

Daniel explains how to decouple the gravatar loading from the actual page loading so that the webpages remain snappy.

Taming the Gravatar

Comments

  • Travis Bell 15 Dec 20:19

    Interesting you mention this. I too have noticed Gravatar be rather slow and unreliable over the past few months. Many times they actually never load.

    It’s too bad the Gravatar developers can’t run a better more scalable infrastructure but I guess these are some of the things we should expect with a free, community service.

  • Gaspard Bucher 02 Jan 05:00

    This is not related to Gravatar but to some other post on SVK loosing it’s source:

    article cached in google: http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:E9WnbaouvwsJ:inhabitants.planetargon.com/show/feed/4+svk+copy+%22no+source+specificed%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&client=safari

    I had the same problem: I did # svk mv //proj/local //proj/trunk and svk lost it’s source.

    Reading openfoundry, I found a very simple fix : edit the svm:mirror property of // :

    1. svk pe svm:mirror // //proj/local -> //proj/trunk

    Hope this helps.

    Gaspard

    bug ref: http://rt.openfoundry.org/Foundry/Project/Tracker/Display.html?Queue=82&id=6000

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