天佑的自由天地

從 Gravatar blog 得知 Automattic 收購了 Gravatar，有了 Automattic infrastructure 和 servers 的幫助，Gravatar 應該不會再有反應慢的情況出現，之前有些人還在猶豫應否在 blog 除下 Gravatar 功能，現在應該不用再想吧。

難怪早前 Gravatar 的速度這麼慢，原來是 migrate 到 Automattic 的過程進行中，Gravatar 被收購後，除了速度變快之外，Automattic 還有以下的計劃：

• We’re going to make all of the Premium features free, and refund anyone who bought them in the last 60 days.
• Move the gravatar serving to a Content Delivery Network so not only will they be fast, it’ll be low latency and not slow down a page load.
• Take the million or so avatars we have on WordPress.com and make them available through the Gravatar API, to compliment the 115k already here.
• From Gravatar, integrate them into all WordPress.com templates and bring features like multiple avatars over.
• From WordPress.com, bring the bigger sizes (128px) over and make that available for any Gravatar. Currently Gravatars are only available up to 80px.
• Allow Gravatar profile pages with Microformat support for things like XFN rel="me" and hCard.
• Develop a new API that has cleaner URLs and allows Gravatars to be addressed by things like URL in addition to (or instead of) email addresses.
• Rewrite the application itself (site.gravatar.com) to fit directly into our WordPress.com grid, for internet-scale performance and reliability.