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timethief
October 21, 2007
Yes I did notice that. However, when I registered for my gravatars I found that using a 128 pixel x 128 pixel images meant that the images needed cropping. So I used 100 pixel x 100 pixel images instead and, they worked very well.
Jennifer
October 21, 2007
In Matt’s announcement on the Gravatar Blog, he mentioned that the size will be increased to 128x128px, which is what is in use here on wp.com. :)
Nita
October 21, 2007
Is only wordpress doing this? I get a lot of commentators from other blogs (not wordpress) who have no avatars and the recent comments section tends to look rather drab. people who comment from live journal have an avatar, but not from blogger.
timethief
October 22, 2007
We haven’t any details on this as yet so I can’t answer your question. Sorry.
timethief
October 22, 2007
Oh no. You are most certainly not asking stupid questions. I do not believe everything has been worked out bt TPTB at this point.
Anyway here’s what I heard back from Mark so far http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=17098&page&replies=7#post-128255
Nita
October 22, 2007
I should say sorry. :) I guess that was a stupid question anyway.