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Animated .gif images on the forum

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

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Thanks, Brandon... guess I'll look for something else.
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Guess I'll start looking for a new gif to distract everyone with.
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How did you guys get such large avatars?
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Mr Grumpy wrote: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.

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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.
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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 -

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