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Disable Animated Avatars

Dinya

Dinya

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Could we please disallow animated avatars (e.g. animated GIFs) on the forum? (Preferably code-wise - by just displaying the first image of the animation as the avatar, like SB does.)

I find them extremely distracting (They are usually the only thing moving on a page.) and they don't really serve any purpose whatsoever, that normal, static ones don't already fulfill.
 
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Wait, we're actually allowed to have animated avatars? ;D Awesome!
 
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Huh.

When I tried to have a Reaver Bobblehead Avatar, it didn't animate. Why are animated ones working now?
 
Vindictus said:
Huh.

When I tried to have a Reaver Bobblehead Avatar, it didn't animate. Why are animated ones working now?
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I don't know; I can't get mine to work either. I just switched to an animated gif but it's not working.
 
Randy Hamblast said:
You can get Photoshop CS2 for free. They shut down the old activation servers and so they posted keys for people who still use CS2. Technically you're only allowed to do it if you paid for it, but it's completely public and there's nothing stopping you from doing it.

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/
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I think Dinya's refering to this guy's avatar.
 
Malcolmo said:
I think Dinya's refering to this guy's avatar.
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If that guy's who I think he is, I remember when he showed up on Dark Side of the Moon. He had a habit of having low-grade shock images in his avatar and signature; he's a troll, and it's probably best to ignore him until he either gets bored and leaves or starts escalating until he gets banned. I think Mike mentioned that he had been banned from Beast's Lair for trolling, as well.
 
It shouldn't be possible, that avatar exceeds the attachment upload size.

I will be working on blocking animated avatars; there is a tradeoff, however. Doing so will block all gif avatars, not just animated ones. Most people on the forum use jpg or png, so it won't affect most people, but it will affect a few.
 
All avatars are stored locally. If you specified an external url for your avatar, the software downloaded it and stored in the avatars folder.
 
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