Removing Gravatar ID from user payloads

We have deprecated the gravatar_id attribute in the user representation. Starting September 19, the API will always provide an empty string as the value for this attribute.

Users have been able to upload avatars directly to GitHub for a while now. If users haven’t uploaded an avatar, we still try to fetch one from Gravatar, but that happens behind the scenes on GitHub’s servers. As a result, the gravatar_id attribute no longer identifies a GitHub user’s canonical avatar. Instead, API consumers should use the avatar_url to fetch a user’s avatar. The avatar_url attribute has always been present in the v3 user representation and is the only reliable way to find a GitHub user’s avatar.

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