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Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

#21
Cool.

This is a "Lorem Ipsum" for avatars, article bylines, etc.

Maybe it also could be useful if the images could have a random name or username.

So, in the same manner as with the avatars, using the same id, the same name/username would be returned each time.

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

#22
post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would also be nice if there were an option to specify male or female. I could see this being useful for randomly generating some users for prototypes and it would be nice if it were possible to have the name more consistent with the photo.

Also race if you are using it for certain markets. And perhaps setting (casual/business).

Also probabilities:

&malepc=50&childrenpc=05

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

#23
post #12
post #6

CC0 is a Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

The effect is just to put something in the public domain. It's not like the other licenses.

Right.

The key thing is that the “Public Domain”, and dedication thereto, doesn't exist in all countries, or at least, it doesn't always function the same way as it does in the U.S. So CC0 tries to get as close as possible in such countries, by waiving all applicable rights and so on, or if that's not possible, giving a very liberal license grant.

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

#26
It looks a bit like a joke project. There's only 70 images no possibility of filter (age / gender / face - non-face ) etc. It's a good idea but I imagine anyone who would find it useful already has more a more complete version they made themselves! Personally I have over 20,000 avatar images I scraped from various sites I use in prototyping.

Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service

#27

Such a pity that https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/1y2k1dtp/ brings the same picture 5 times (cache and all of that). Maybe it could be added to the homepage a small explanation about why this works as expected: https://jsfiddle.net/franciscop/L52as3z8/ Also, check out http://chancejs.com/ , maybe you can integrate it there for random content generation (:

Pretty much every image placeholder service I've used does that.

Well that is pretty much my point, to try to differentiate (;
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