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Replacing Gravatar and Other External Dependencies

posted by on Monday January 30 2017, @06:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the blogging-off-the-grid dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

After reading the story about Disqus stopping the free version, I remembered this article in which artist behind Pepper and Carrot comic, David Revoy, narrates how he dropped Gravatar, and other external dependencies, like fonts or icons. He even created an avatar generator based around cats. Social networks are still there, but only can track you if you click, the images are locally hosted. You may have heard about this artist, as he was involved in some Blender projects, Krita videos and general promotion of FLOSS for artistic purposes.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday January 31 2017, @08:30AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Tuesday January 31 2017, @08:30AM (#461113) Homepage
    It's not a problem if the company strictly aims the $$$$ edition at companies with $$$$$, and who need the extra features in order to scale, and need the SLA, etc. so that >99.99% of the users are getting a fully functional home/SOHO edition for free. That's what my company does, and for us small is anything up to and including a typical university, so really not small at all. We get very good money from the biiiiig clients, and they feel that it's worth it, as the competition is both worse and pricier. That lets us give away 99% of the software for free without needing to worry about the cash-flow. We're one of the few boom-time companies that's been steadily making a profit for a long time, rather than simply running up debt or going on begging^Wfunding runs. We were founded by an OSS nerd, you might be able to tell, and we're probably a special case.
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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday January 31 2017, @02:56PM

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Tuesday January 31 2017, @02:56PM (#461232)

    I think this is what this article is all about. Not enough people are paying for the $$$$ version, so they are taking away the free version. When you are not open source, this is what a company can do.

    It sucks, but it is their right to do so. I would only trust a company in this position if the free product was open source.

    Now in Gravatar's case, it isn't just some software you can download, there is some server component that must be maintained. (as I understand it) This kind of complicates the matter, but it still means you can't trust the company. I still think this is a cash-grab by Disqus, How long until their blog comments product does the same?

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