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How do you get an animated gif to display properly as an avatar?

GIFs will often break when they are re-sized. I can see yours is only animating for one cycle, I'm guessing this is the cause. I would discourage you from using an animated avatar because it makes the pages load slower and makes reading threads very distracting.

Thanks, Brandon... guess I'll look for something else.

Guess I'll start looking for a new gif to distract everyone with.

How did you guys get such large avatars?

I increased the size to 200x200 quite a while ago, you just need to upload one that is that size.

Take any image you want, or any cropped portion of one, for an avatar and resize it to 200x200. It's better to take a larger size image and shrink it, than using a small one and increasing it, since it results in a better quality image.

My avatar is no longer showing, and when I attempted to investigate, a message told me that its type is no longer allowed. Can I please get an explanation for this so I can "fix" it? Thanks -

George P.