My only problem with gravatar is when do I know that the user really wants to display the avatar? Or it's like a feature on and off, Show avatars Vs Don't show avatars… Maybe this last option is the best approach, at least for now. After having avatar support, we can elaborate more on it.
If user has no gravatar account, gravatar will send a default image like
this page. This page shows 2 avatar source.
But, a switcher in application.conf is needed (
snip.comment.avatar=on/off/true/false ), it preserves the blog owner to open or close this feature.
hmm… my idea is, avatar is only for comments not for snips because owner can put his photo on snipsnap-portelet-1 or somewhere, comment visitor can't.
Would you mind how about to create a snip/wiki page to save the forked version's final implemented feature list ? Discuss here, but result there !