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I think they are using Gravatar (https://en.gravatar.com/) to pull them in based on your email as it surprised me for a second when I set it up locally, registered and then my current profile photo was already there.

Yup, Let's Chat uses Gravatar!

We should add that we are using Gravatar to our Wiki. It's not obvious for people who aren't already using Gravatar what's going on.

Whoops, I forgot to answer your first question. But yes, we are using Gravatar.

Ah, I assume the reason we all get identical avatars is that gravatar api access gets stopped by the corporate proxy. Any chance that's easily configurable? You're probably going to see a lot of corporate use by places who insist on self hosting everything so you might want to consider dealing with avatars yourself.

Yea it's something we're thinking about. Right now we just assume it'll be ran somewhere internet-aware.

Can you do me a huge favour and file a PR in github? https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat/issues

0.3.0 is now merged into master