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Re-enable .gif image upload

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Miracle Lotus
I don't see why this was removed honestly...
The avatar upload limit is already set to a small 88kb.

Why was this removed?
Nessuka
Gifs are ugly, and anything complex will use a lot of space on the server.
However, see here for some ways to use animated PNGs, and yes, AFAIK they work for avatars here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
she_old
people would need a plugin to see the apng though
Topic Starter
Miracle Lotus

Ijah wrote:

Gifs are ugly, and anything complex will use a lot of space on the server.
However, see here for some ways to use animated PNGs, and yes, AFAIK they work for avatars here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
As I stated, there's an 88kb limit.
Also, I wouldn't want to make an animated png that nobody would be able to see without a plugin.
theowest

Miracle Lotus wrote:

Ijah wrote:

Gifs are ugly, and anything complex will use a lot of space on the server.
However, see here for some ways to use animated PNGs, and yes, AFAIK they work for avatars here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
As I stated, there's an 88kb limit.
Also, I wouldn't want to make an animated png that nobody would be able to see without a plugin.
firefox users can see them by default. It's actually pretty nice seeing someone with a short, usually looped animated avatar here on the forums sometimes. I wouldn't want to ever see animated gifs in-game.
Topic Starter
Miracle Lotus

theowest wrote:

firefox users can see them by default. It's actually pretty nice seeing someone with a short, usually looped animated avatar here on the forums sometimes. I wouldn't want to ever see animated gifs in-game.
Chrome users can't.
theowest

Miracle Lotus wrote:

theowest wrote:

firefox users can see them by default. It's actually pretty nice seeing someone with a short, usually looped animated avatar here on the forums sometimes. I wouldn't want to ever see animated gifs in-game.
Chrome users can't.
with an extension we can. I'm using "Animated PNG support for Google Chrome™", just APNG in short. It's actually the only APNG extension you can have for chrome, and it works just fine.
blissfulyoshi
Chrome users supposedly have a working add-on to fix that https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... mnpckdbblp (didn't test)

Edit: Theo ninjaed me T_T
Topic Starter
Miracle Lotus

blissfulyoshi wrote:

Chrome users supposedly have a working add-on to fix that https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... mnpckdbblp (didn't test)

Edit: Theo ninjaed me T_T
That's merely avoiding what I said.

Miracle Lotus wrote:

Also, I wouldn't want to make an animated png that nobody would be able to see without a plugin.
What's the point of removing gif avatar uploads.
theowest
Here's what peppy said about having animated gif avatars in-game p/754364 (two years ago)
and here we have a more recent discussion about animated avatars: t/22225/
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