libravatar to replace gravatar?
I see that in commit f0d2a2d2 @gaurav1999 changed the default setting from showing gravatars to not, because some users have privacy concerns. Well, maybe you folks could switch to libravatar (and "git grep gravatar" to make sure to update all the docs and UI strings accordingly), as it reportedly is a drop-in replacement (although I have not tested it myself, you'd need to check that it still loads images from gravatar too?).
Evolution did it like this: evolution@9f5699c2 as part of evolution#793 (closed)
With this, maybe the default setting could be back on to showing avatars by default.
Edited by Jeff Fortin