We are not using Gravatars on the present site. Only the new one.

I set up an account on Gravatar.com, uploaded my image, then the next time I logged onto the new website it showed up next to my name so I know it's working fine.

I hadn't heard of Gravatars before but after I created one I was really impressed at how easy it was and how easy it is to have multiple e-mail addresses and multiple images all managed from the same place. I've never been a big personal fan of avatars as they were tedious to keep track of and update.

Also by chance I was at a new site, I forget where right now, but they used Gravatars and as soon as I created an account my avatar showed up.

We haven't sorted out the details of publishing the discussion topics but we're well aware that that there are people with accounts in probably all time zones now.