Will we ever be able to upload a profile picture without the use of Gravatar?

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Gravatar's a bit annoying to use. Isn't it easier if we were to get pictures from other sources/ services? (Plus I keep forgetting the password, because I don't use t much anyway >.> )

I understand that a BIG reason why Gravatar is important is to prevent NSFW profile pictures, but surely there must be another way around?

Oh, and sneaky question, does Gravatar pay PokemonDB or vice versa? (Feel free to ignore that, I was curious so as to what kind of relation this site has with Gravatar. Not my business, of course, so sorry.)

And, I forgot, you can't upload .gifs

Moving profile picture are literal fire, yo.

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Highly unlikely. I imagine Gravatar is much easier to use than an internal avatar system too. And I don't think anybody is paid: http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/

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moving profile pics are annoying though

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Annoying, maybe, but fun :D Both, somehow, paradoxically.

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Originally I didn't use uploads because they were stored in a weird way in the software. But that has changed so it's certainly possible to allow uploads now. I'll look into doing that at some point. I agree, it's quite annoying the way you need to do it now. Gravatar used to be a lot simpler.

As for payment, no I don't get paid! Not sure why they would ever pay me for using their service, if anything it would be the other way around. But it's a free service so I don't need to pay them either.

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Great news! Thanks a bunch!

So, apart from Google ads, all other costs are covered by you? Dayum! Thanks, man. You're the best! :D

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You'll look into it at some point? Huh, I guess that means I wasted some of my brain space for a password to an account I'll only use for avatars.

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no reason not to use the same password for all your accounts that don't have anything worth hacking into and stealing

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Meh, I use the same passwords for a lot of websites, I just don't remember which one I used for which website.

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Ok, good I hope this can happen soon.