lasserafn

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1. 31.▲
   by lasserafn 9y ago

   I built this service (or, the core GitHub package) because we needed it internally, and someone requested an API of this, so I quickly threw together this :-). Also, I think theres a lot of those unique avatar generators out there (even one
2. 32.▲
   by lasserafn 9y ago

   I love the idea! It's added to my todo :D
3. 33.▲
   by lasserafn 9y ago

   Solid points :D Sadly theres not much I can do (I think?) to make people believe that there is privacy. I guess generating them locally (or using CSS) would be the best option for anyone concerned with privacy
4. 34.▲
   by lasserafn 9y ago

   .. I still don't get it :D
5. 35.▲
   by lasserafn 9y ago

   Absolutely, I'd probably also just use CSS and HTML and use the core package: https://github.com/lasserafn/php-initials to generate the initials, it's faster and you won't depend on third-party. I absolu
6. 36.▲
   by lasserafn 9y ago

   Chinese support has been added, good catch! I actually thought I had it covered. However due to caching, the request above will not work before tomorrow. You will have to input another name. I apologize. I may clear the image cache later to
7. 37.▲
   by lasserafn 9y ago

   I'm a little sad that I didn't do this
8. 38.▲
   by lasserafn 9y ago

   That's so cool!
9. 39.▲
   by lasserafn 9y ago

   I'm working to support Chinese as well, preferably would be support for all languages. Sadly not all fonts support each character so I've been resorting to use different fonts for different unicode scripts :)
10. 40.▲
    by lasserafn 9y ago

    I'd absolutely recommend anyone, that has the ability, to generate them using HTML and CSS, it's way faster. You could even use the core package the generate the initials (as it's a little more than just each letter of each n
11. 41.▲
    by lasserafn 9y ago

    Wow, that is so cool! Can't believe I haven't seen this before.
12. 42.▲
    by lasserafn 9y ago

    It's funny you'd say this! I remember when I launched the core package on Github, someone suggested colors to be generated from the name or initials. I will look into this, it would be pretty neat! Thanks for the feedback :-)
13. 43.▲
    by lasserafn 9y ago

    Ut stores the avatars on the server, cached by all parameters (not the name, but the generated initials) to avoid generating them again. Also some response headers are set to ask browsers to cache the response. I would also recommend users
14. 44.▲
    by lasserafn 9y ago

    I absolutely agree, I would also recommend anyone to use CSS and HTML, it's pretty straightforward. However for those that: 1) Don't want to 2) Don't know how to 3) Required rendering besides HTML views This can be pretty use
15. 45.▲
    by lasserafn 9y ago

    Thank you! It handles last names and middle names as such: - your example would be JS, however if you specify a desired length of 3, it would be: JAS. I actually haven’t tested commas and such but I will definitively add this! Added it to m
16. 46.▲
    Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials(ui-avatars.com)

    164 points by lasserafn 9y ago|96 comments