[Users] roughly 7-8 second delays for "Fetching message"---seems to be libravatar?

[Ricardo Mones]

Hi Andrej,

On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 07:16:19PM +0200, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 12:57:20 -0400
> George Avrunin wrote:
> 
> > I'm not sure whether this is normal behavior for the libravatar plugin or
> > a problem with my configuration, but I've unloaded the plugin and don't
> > seem to be encountering these delays any longer (albeit with a relatively
> > small test period).
> 
> Yes, this is normal, unfortunately. The downloading of avatar image
> files should really be rewritten to be asynchronous, otherwise the
> plugin is pretty useless - nobody has the time to wait for those
> timeouts when the avatar server happens to be unreachable.

Patches welcome! Last time I tried introduced some thread code to ease
this, but updating widgets asynchronously is something I don't really
know how to do :-(

regards,
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
  ~
  RTFM - "Read The Manual" (The 'F' is silent). Usually a very good 
  idea.                                             Bjarne Stroustrup

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