Ask HN: Who does gravatar work?

1 points by badmon 10 years ago | 2 comments

Its a service I use a lot. I can't help but wonder how the whole service works(very technical is fine with me)

csixty4 10 years ago |

I was an early adopter. In the beginning, there was actually a handful of us reviewing avatars and assigning ratings. Now it's just kind of left up to trust.

I don't think it was an Automattic project at first, so I doubt it's built on WordPress. But it's probably built on PHP and MySQL, with a ton of caching in front of it.

It wouldn't surprise me if it leverages WordPress.com's CDN.

eugenekolo2 10 years ago |

What do you find confusing? It's owned by Wordpress guys, and people integrate it into their website. The backend stores a picture you set on the site, or one on other people's sites integrated with it. It then also keeps track of all your different accounts.