Gravitar checkbox should stay checked

[jidanni]

Problem and impact

Editing our profile a second time shows the Gravitar button has oddly become unchecked.

Yes, there is a certain logic involved. But I would just keep it checked, once the user has checked it.

That way each time he goes to Edit My Profile, he needn't think "huh, didn't I tell it to use my Gravitar?"

Yes even if lower down it says it is indeed using it.

[rixx]

Keeping the checkbox checked would be somewhat misleading, as it would imply that any update on the Gravatar side would get synced to pretalx. That is not the case – due to privacy concerns, we retrieve the image from Gravatar once, and then serve it ourselves. Checking the box again will start the sync again.

I can see a case for an interface that isn't a checkbox next to the "Retrieve profile picture", and instead something like a button, and I'd merge a PR making this change, but other than that, I'd consider this out of scope for now.

[jidanni]

Holy smokes. I thought the whole point of gravitar is no matter what you changed all the other sites following it would change with it.

We'll you got to add an explanation there that it's only synced once!

Otherwise everybody will think it's just like the all the other sites that use gravitar, they just stay in sync.

I don't even know if this is consistent with gravitar's terms of use!

[rixx]

I don't see how this would violate the TOS of Automattic, who (as far as I can tell) do not have separate TOS for Gravatar. If, however, you can point out where pretalx violates the TOS of Gravatar/Automattic, I'd of course stop doing so immediately and disable our Gravatar integration! As that's a topic of legal bearing, please contact info at pretalx.com for further discussion.