i think the problem here is not that there needs to be some bullshit rfc telling everybody how to run some avatar querying service, but that this fag needs to stop inventing busywork to solve a theoretical problem that has minimal impact on anybody who isn't a minmaxing retard. yes, the answer to this trivial annoyance is to introduce another database full of personally identifying information that the user has no control over. great idea, libtard!
Do you think using Gravatar/Libravatar for avatars here was a bad idea? I thought it might be a good way to do it without having to host anything, but I'm not super psyched about having to rely on a 3rd party either.
OdontalgicRumprammer 2 days ago
in theory it's a solution, which is fine, but in practice it creates dependencies on services that creates extra stupid specialized work for everything. i get the idea of centralizing on top of these services to abstract the work away from individual projects to an authoritative source (which i guess in this case would be multiple sources), so it really just compounds the issue by creating an rfc that services on top of services have to adhere to. it's a chasing your tail kind of problem. in 10 years this guy will be proposing a service to query the services that query the services.
i think sometimes users just have to suffer and upload an image. fuck trying to accommodate convenience in that scenario. the juice isn't worth the squeeze.
OdontalgicRumprammer 2 days ago 1 reply
also not being able to click new/updated/whatever from within the comments/post form is annoying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe the real fix is to finally let you set the default sort order in your preferences?
OdontalgicRumprammer 2 days ago 1 reply
yeah but then i have to log in again
Once I make this feature, I'll just go into the database and change it for you. Preferences as a service!