Every time we push an update here, we obtain a number of questions from customers asking about changes, where everything has gone, etc. But there's one question we’ve been requested (and also have clarified) so frequently through the years that people figured it had been finally time for any blog publish.

Setting your And Me Account user picture

While we have an incredibly awesome group of default Android symbols, your best option is setting a custom user picture, a choice we’ve provided through Gravatar. Why would you use a 3rd party, you request? Because we hate registering for any new site every day and needing to upload an image. It's not only an additional step at registration, however you’re playing a large number of instances to update when you wish to modify your picture.

Sometimes I forget some people is probably not conscious of Gravatar’s masterdom. I’ve been building using blogging platforms for a long time, where it’s reigned supreme for universal user pictures. The procedure works such as this:

you register at Gravatar.com

you upload a photograph

blogs like Android and Me can instantly grab the picture

You’ve only got to register once, and it takes approximately thirty seconds. Then you’ll start to see that person everywhere. You may also link extra emails for your Gravatar account to pay for all of your bases.

About the new site, we use Gravatar to source all user pictures. We rely on them within the comment threads. We utilize them for the writer pictures. We rely on them within the sidebar using the top ranked comments. And it is not only us, setting the picture once at Gravatar allows any blog you possess an account with to instantly source the image. Change it out once? All sites up-to-date.

A small peak in to the future

I pointed out it within our latest update publish, but we have large plans for the And Me Accounts. At this time we’re certainly inside a transition phase, but we desired to start moving out features once we had them ready.

Presently, your And Me Account does nothing more than permit you to comment and score from one account. Soon, you’ll obtain a full report page that shows your title, picture, score, phone, company, recent comments, etc. Right you can now only score points from departing a comment or someone up-voting your comments, but soon we’ll unveil a variety of new point mechanics. We have double point weekends, point-unlockable content, awards restricted to user groups with certain point totals, etc. To obtain things began, any And Me Account that leaves a discuss this publish can get double points.

Hopefully everyone will be pleased with the consumer-centric features we’ll be pushing within the coming days. We're feeling we’ve finally got a few of the kinks ironed using this whole blogging factor and it is time to pay attention to you, the loyal readers. If you’ve still not registered, that can be done here.