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Animated Avatars are back.

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You can also just rename a avatar.gif to avatar.png and the system will accept it and play the animated gif.

But animated avatars of any format are not allowed. Using an animated avatar can get you banned or have your avatar privileges removed.

Yeah, although I made a jokeish OP, this thread is more of awareness if anything. I'll wait for a staff member to say something, I don't mind changing my avatar back.
 
Animated PNG?

tVD9A.png
 
pretty sure i remember a mod or evilore saying its not a good idea to get around the no animated avatar rule. don't know if avatar loss or ban was the punishment.
 
My avatar has been animated since the day after we switched to hosting them on here and no one noticed even once. Look at the eyes. :(
 
pretty sure i remember a mod or evilore saying its not a good idea to get around the no animated avatar rule. don't know if avatar loss or ban was the punishment.

You can also just rename a avatar.gif to avatar.png and the system will accept it and play the animated gif.

But animated avatars of any format are not allowed. Using an animated avatar can get you banned or have your avatar privileges removed.

I'd be changing back right now if I were you guys
 
There were plenty of poorly looped five frame gifs before the change, the only different now is that they would be even lower quality.

edit: oh god it's already happening

Maybe there should be mandatory gif standards, and you fall below the standard, your GAFBlue Account gets downgraded to GAFGrey.
Of course, GAFGold members won't have to worry...
 
The fact this thread has not been locked or had a mod posting means that they are watching us. Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, slowly and surely drawing their plans against us.
 
The fact this thread has not been locked or had a mod posting means that they are watching us. Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, slowly and surely drawing their plans against us.

They probably have to wait till Evilore or an admin says something.
 
Considering changing my default avatar from Sellers to Malcolm McDowell. I'm typically against longtime avatar changes, so I've been considering this very thoroughly.
 
EviLore said:
Animated avatars are no longer permitted.

He says pretty plainly that animated avatars are not allowed. This doesn't appear to be limited to the GIF format. I thought we'd had this discussion before. I have an APNG version of my avatar ready to go that I can't use cause of this rule.

EDIT: Goddammit Kokonoe I swear you have a new avatar every week
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i just went to add that chrome extension and it says:

This extension can access:
Your data on all websites
Your tabs and browsing activity


what does that entail, exactly?

btw, i don't miss animated avatars at all
It means they are going to take all your passwords and bank details.
I think it's a worthy trade off to have animated avatars back.
 
wat

Really? lol

Yep, the loophole was discovered soon after animated avatars were banned.

People that used the loophole got a special avatars like:
S3RpJ.jpg

Which they can't change.

Which to be fair is better than not being able to have any avatar.


A while ago a mod/admin made a topic where people with "I don't know how to make an avatar correctly, now I can't change it" could ask to get avatar privileges back since most had gone without them for months or years.
 
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