Registering on a new site uses Identicon instead of Gravatar

Question

This is now the second time I've encountered this. I have only ever used a gravatar (and predate the identicon option), but when I register on a site in the network I haven't logged in on before, my profile on that site uses a generated identicon (the SE-specific image upload) instead of the gravatar I have always used everywhere else. I'm fairly certain that even after identicons were introduced, the gravatar was carried over properly, at least until whenever this bug was introduced.

Answer 1

This should be fixed now, both creating new accounts and syncing existing accounts should respect the gravatar / identicon distinction.

The bug was introduced when identicon was set as the default for new accounts. Basically we wanted to stop putting a user's email hash into the page, unless they explicitly want to link in their gravatar. Naturally we didn't want to change anybody's existing profile image, so it only applies to new users.