Change gravatar type to "monsterid" for meta only

Question

Come on, let's have some fun!

vs

Do I need to say more ?

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Apparently I do!

If a user has a custom avatar, such as me, then nothing will change.

If a user doesn't have a custom avatar then an unique one will be displayed based on the md5 of the user's email. But, there are several styles you can choose from. The one we use is called identicon; it's the most professional of all the ones available. But there are more themes, such as monsterid (see example above).

They as well are for all intent and purposes unique, different for each email. Let's play around with the hash and get more examples:

Answer 1

That's a Greasemonkey script even I can "write":

// ==UserScript==
// @name           monstify
// @namespace      stackoverflow
// @description    Use monsterid instead of identicon
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://serverfault.com/*
// @include        http://superuser.com/*
// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*
// @author         Benjamin Dumke
// ==/UserScript==

/* most of this code is stolen^H^H^H^H^H^Hadapted from Kip
   Robinson's accept rate details script at
   http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/62156 */

(function() {

  //boilerplate greasemonkey to wait until jQuery is defined...
  function GM_wait()
  {
    if(typeof unsafeWindow.jQuery == 'undefined')
      window.setTimeout(GM_wait,100);
    else
      unsafeWindow.jQuery(function() { letsJQuery(unsafeWindow.jQuery); });
  }
  GM_wait();

  function letsJQuery($)
  {
  $("img").each(function(){
     $(this).attr("src", $(this).attr("src").replace(/d=identicon/, "d=monsterid"));
  });
 }
})();

This does the replacing on all the Trilogy Sites, but you know how to change it to your needs.

Possible improvements:

• only replace gravatar images that are really user images
• do it without jquery so you can do it earlier (so the original images don't appear briefly)
• make the monsters prettier -- the Dood isn't totally wrong
• …

Feel free to refine.

Answer 2

MonsterIds are really, really ugly.

Answer 3

Unicorns are waaaay better than monsters!

Answer 4

Go for Unicorns. Definitely.

Answer 5

I know this is not an answer, but it completes a circle:

(I hate those monsterids, anyway)

Answer 6

They look much better in this page: http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_monsterid/

Answer 7

Identicons, ATTACK!

Oups... wrong movie... sorry.

Answer 8

I make fix?

// ==UserScript==
// @name           Monstrify
// @namespace      http://stackexchange.com
// @description    Use monsterid instead of identicon
// @include        http://stackoverflow.com/*
// @include        http://serverfault.com/*
// @include        http://superuser.com/*
// @include        http://meta.stackoverflow.com/*
// @author         Hello71
// @changelog      Doesn't require jQuery, only replaces user avatars, fixed namespace, changed author, better name.
// ==/UserScript==
(function () {
    var replace = function (imgs) {
        for (var i = 0; i < imgs.length; i++) {
            var img = imgs[i];
            img.href = img.href.replace("d=identicon", "d=monsterid");
        }
    };
    replace(document.querySelector("#user-avatar > img");
    replace(document.querySelectorAll("#user-gravatar32 > a > img");
}());