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sometimes I'll notice gravatar being slow throughout the day when my site is loading - basically being the last thing to load. it'd be great if there was a way to disable gravatar in the admin cp somewhere.

+1, I actually thought this was already possible, but it seems not. There should be an opt-out option.

Basically we should provide options to disable every 3rd party service-related feature like this where possible (including 2.0).

Yep, definitely.

is there a simple way to disable this until an option gets added, if it were to get added?

Well, removing this range would fix it for anybody adding new avatars, but existing users wouldn't be affected: https://github.com/mybb/mybb/blob/d1bdc7...L2122-2160