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NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion.
To the extent we ship Andreas' JIRA avatars inside of JIRA, we'll need a way for users to have consistent avatars across all Atlassian products.
A third party created the Confluence Avatar Server plugin specifically to "allow confluence avatars to be used in fisheye in an effort to maintain consistent identities across tools."
However, according to MattR:
One serious problem with that plugin: it loads all the users in the system at start-up, whenever a user is added or removed, and whenever a gravatar is requested. The email-hash-to-username mapping is also regenerated for every user at startup and whenever a user is added or removed. It may work fine in instances with a few hundred users, but will probably quickly grind your Confluence instance to a halt after that. The lack of concurrency protection on the mapping HashMap is also a grave concern, given it is potentially read and updated quite frequently.
I think it would be best if this functionality was implemented in the applications. It isn't particularly hard, but it needs to be done in the application to have acceptable performance, I think.
Therefore, we need a way for Confluence to at least publish avatars.
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[CONFCLOUD-19636] Add support for Gravatars in Confluence both for inclusion and export
Would be nice to have this before the whole idea of avatars become obsolete by rise of the machines...
Mike Barmettler
added a comment - +1 would be nice to have that feature soon 
Paudi Moriarty
added a comment - And as a Confluence Server user/administrator, what do I do then?
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I cannot believe this is not supported and is not even planned.
Paudi Moriarty
added a comment - And as a Confluence Server user/administrator, what do I do then?
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I cannot believe this is not supported and is not even planned. Once this integration project is complete, we'll post another comment on this ticket to let everyone know, then update the issue to reflect that it remains a problem only for Confluence Server.
And as a Confluence Server user/administrator, what do I do then?
On the Atlassian Cloud side, Atlassian Account (formerly Atlassian ID) uses Gravatar by default when a user has not uploaded an avatar. AA will be integrated for all our Confluence Cloud customers in the coming months, so this issue will soon be resolved for Cloud customers.
Once this integration project is complete, we'll post another comment on this ticket to let everyone know, then update the issue to reflect that it remains a problem only for Confluence Server.
It will be great to use gravatar in conflunce without Third Party Plugin, that doesn't support atlassian. Usually companies have application links between JIRA and Confluence and the servers have the same set of users. And it's logical to use the same gravatar in both servises.
Agree with the other comments here, seems to be a recurring theme with Atlassian products - sold as a suite but features are not added or supported consistently across all products in the suite.
This really needs to just work across all Atlassian products. Not having it on Confluence feels like "Hey, have you heard about shared libraries?"
Hi everyone,
Thanks for participating in this issue, either by voting, commenting or just watching. We highly value your feedback in all forms, and through suggestions in jira.atlassian.com is not different. We use this channel to learn the best we can with how customers use Confluence and how we can continue to improve the experience for as many users as possible.
Confluence no longer has its own Avatars and rather has centralized Avatars coming from Atlassian Identity. This way use has one identity among different Atlassian Cloud products. As of now, we do not have any way to extend Atlassian Identity Avatars.
Thanks,
Shrey Luthra
Product Manager, Confluence