Crowdfunding the creation of the next version of LFGSS

It's amazing that it's already available--fast work, Velocio and blueprints.

We're planning on seeing how Mozilla Persona works in practise, how you guys like it.

We love the concept of not owning your identity. It's way more secure this way, and it will work great with third party clients for Microcosm (i.e. a native Android app).

But... whether we keep it depends on feedback.

As for Gravatars/Avatars. We're starting with Gravatar because it works well. I'm very open on this though, we're going to have file-uploading so it will be easy to have avatars that we host. Mostly I will be looking at whether Gravatar gets a bad reaction by users, and if that doesn't happen then whether Gravatar infrstructure is slower than ours.

I like Persona, but not Gravatar--the latter required me to sign up to Wordpress (unless I've done something wrong, which is likely) and was cumbersome. Or could Persona add an avatar feature? (It may be intended to be more general than for avatar-requiring sites for all I know.)