# Libravatar Addon
by [Klaus Weidenbach](http://friendica.dszdw.net/profile/klaus)
-**Please note that [the Libravatar service will shut down on 2018-09-01:](https://blog.libravatar.org/posts/Libravatar.org_is_shutting_down_on_2018-09-01/).**
-You maybe want to switch to the catavatar or gravatar addon.
-
This addon allows you to look up an avatar image for new users and contacts at [Libravatar](http://www.libravatar.com). It will be used if there have not been found any other avatar images yet for example through OpenID.
Libravatar is a free and open replacement for Gravatar. It is a service where people can store an avatar image for their email-addresses. These avatar images can get looked up for example in comment functions, profile pages, etc. on other sites. There exists a central installation at [www.libravatar.com](http://www.libravatar.com), but you can also host it on your own server. If no avatar was found Libravatar will look up at Gravatar as a fallback.
See examples at [Libravatar][1].
## Alternative Configuration
-Open the config/local.ini.php file and add "libravatar" to the list of activated addons:
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- [system]
- addon = ...,libravatar
-
-You can add one configuration variables for the addon to the config/addon.ini.php file:
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- [libravatar]
- default_avatar = identicon
+Open the `config/node.config.php` file and add "libravatar" to the list of activated addons:
+
+ 'addons' => [
+ ...
+ 'libravatar' => [
+ admin => true,
+ ],
+ ]
+
+You can add one configuration variables for the addon to the `config/libravatar.config.php` file:
+
+ return [
+ 'libravatar' => [
+ 'default_avatar' => 'identicon',
+ ],
+ ];
[1]: http://wiki.libravatar.org/api/ "See API documentation at Libravatar for more information"