{"id":16,"date":"2007-10-17T21:54:42","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T05:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mantisbt.org\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2007-10-17T21:54:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T05:54:42","slug":"automattic-wordpress-acquires-gravatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/archives\/mantisbt\/16","title":{"rendered":"Automattic (WordPress) acquires Gravatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Mantis 1.1.x we have added a feature to integrate with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gravatar.com\" target=\"_blank\">gravatar<\/a>, a global avatar service allowing users to define their avatar once and use it from any websites that support the service.\u00a0 Although it was neat service, it was having some struggles with scalability.\u00a0 It is great to see that Automattic (the company behind WordPress) has <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.gravatar.com\/2007\/10\/18\/automattic-gravatar\/\" target=\"_blank\">acquired gravatar<\/a>.\u00a0 According to the announcement, the service has already been migrated to WordPress servers and is already serving avatars three times faster than the original service.\u00a0 Avatar had 115K avatars, after acquisition it is now merged with WordPress pool of over 1M avatars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mantis 1.1.x we have added a feature to integrate with the gravatar, a global avatar service allowing users to define their avatar once and use it from any websites that support the service.\u00a0 Although it was neat service, it was having some struggles with scalability.\u00a0 It is great to see that Automattic (the company &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/archives\/mantisbt\/16\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Automattic (WordPress) acquires Gravatar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mantisbt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}