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My reputation tracker used to include the flair HTML to show badges etc... but that seems to have gone away. Going to my flair json link now, I'm getting back:

 "displayName":"Jon Skeet",

Is this deliberate, and are there any plans to reinstate the previous flair?

I'm aware that everything I'm using is pre-API... should I just take the plunge and just use the proper API instead? :)

(I've tagged this as "bug" on the grounds of it possibly being unintentional. None of the others particularly seemed to fit other than perhaps support. Feel free to retag appropriately.)

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@Jeff: I'm nitpicking but this should be status-bydesign not status-declined, since this is not a feature proposal but a bug.. –  Andreas Bonini Mar 2 '11 at 19:49

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Following the got flair link on a user profile to reach the User Flair page, and then scrolling right to the bottom and you can see:

What about the old, non image based flair?


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Gah - hadn't seen that. I guess that answers that, although it's frankly annoying as I really don't want to serve an image link as part of the rep tracker. Most users know what their own faces look like, and having all the information in a single response is handy over 3G. Will look at whether the API makes this easier... –  Jon Skeet Mar 2 '11 at 12:40
@Jon, FYI, it looks like this probably changed back in September. (On a re-read, I feel I should clarify that I mean September was the introduction of the current image version and probably the time the others were deprecated). –  DMA57361 Mar 2 '11 at 12:45
The JSON feed definitely changed in the last couple of days. It looks like the API gives me what I need though. –  Jon Skeet Mar 2 '11 at 12:52
Sorry, I wasn't really explicit enough (even after an edit, unfortunatly); I didn't mean that the JSON actually changed in September - it clearly didn't - mearly that it's status changed (to deprecated). ~ Hmmm, think I need a cuppa before trying to write anything else today... –  DMA57361 Mar 2 '11 at 12:58
Maybe this should have been announced more aggressively, I maintain a small Android-Widget-App that displays a user's flair which now longer displays avatars or badges.. –  Josef Mar 3 '11 at 12:29

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