Integrate 8bit-avatars into gitea #394

We have now seen a few cases where the random avatar image generator accidentally created nazi symbolism. We thus started quite a while ago https://codeberg.org/codeberg/avatars , a golang-port of the 8bit-dicebear/8biticon avatars. We'd like to integrate this into gitea.

Example report: https://social.tchncs.de/@cark/105651953031693352

I've ported several avatar generating libraries to golang. Once we get 1.14.0-rc1 out I will start on a PR that'll allow swapping out of the default avatar generation library.

src.techknowlogick.com/monster-id
src.techknowlogick.com/wavatars
src.techknowlogick.com/retricon

sounds great!

we just have to make gitea-avata-generator settable by gitea and make use of this lib.

I just dont have time for this, but happy to help :D

-> Codeberg/avatars#1 (comment)

related upstream issue: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/14799

Hi, what is the current status of this issue?

There is a stale PR (see reference above). It is ready to merge, I think we're awaiting the final decision whether or not to deploy this. I think there was discussions whether users would like this or not.

The actual issue that the avatar generator creates swastika was solved by using a different kind of symmetry in the generator.

From my side, this could be merged in if there are voices in favour of it.

I think we're awaiting the final decision whether or not to deploy this. I think there was discussions whether users would like this or not.

We could still try it out here or in Forgejo, right?

Closing due to lack of interest / contributions. The issue with nazi symbolism is luckily fixed already.