Ghost does not respect Gravatar settings

Issue Summary

According to docs it should be possible to disable Gravatar. So I tried:

[ghost@strefadysk strefadysk_prd]$ ghost config privacy.useGravatar
false

But failed:

Steps to Reproduce

Add to your config:

  "privacy": {
    "useGravatar": "false"
  }

or alternatively:

"privacy": {
    "useTinfoil": true
}

Restart ghost. Check avatar.

PS

By the way in docs there’s comma at the end of the line which should be removed:

"privacy": {
    "useTinfoil": true,
}

Technical details:

• Ghost Version: rc1
• Node Version: 6
• Browser/OS: Chrome
• Database: MariaDB

[kevinansfield]

So what you are saying is that it does not deactivate all gravatar links but disables initial gravatar setup when user is added?

Exactly, it disables automatic gravatar lookup when entering e-mail addresses in the admin client on /setup/two and /signup and on the server when saving user models with a new e-mail address.

While we are in this topic let me ask you @kevinansfield how to restore gravatar without reinviting that user when gravatars are enabled in config? I tried to select manual photo upload and paste the gravatar link but got error about incorrect file type.

I’m not sure I’m following you here. Maybe move this to #help and we can go through the steps that you’re trying? If there are bugs there it sounds like a completely separate issue.

[kevinansfield]

Yeah, I think this can be closed for now, there’s no actionable issue left here that I can see.