From 8796bf0a1dbfb39c037a8987af95e171ea73bfee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:57:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] libravatar shutdown --- doc/todo/libravatar_EOL.mdwn | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/todo/libravatar_EOL.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/libravatar_EOL.mdwn b/doc/todo/libravatar_EOL.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..96d7502a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/libravatar_EOL.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Unfortunately libravatar is being shut down on 2018-09-01 + + +This is used in the comments plugin to get an avatar url. + +It would probably be best to remove the code that tries to use it, in case +its dns eventually gets taken over by something that causes some kind of +problem. (The shutdown page doesn't say what will happen to the DNS.) + +It might also be a good idea to filter out avatar urls in existing comments +that point to libravatar.org. --[[Joey]] -- 2.39.5