Animated GIFS??

[SonicVanguard]

What's the deal - I come on here tonight and my avatar's gone. Go to upload it again and I get a message saying I can't use animated images for my avatar?? What gives?

**EDIT** I cleared my cache and my avatar is back - but what was with that message? Is that for real - if I change my avatar I won't be able to change to a animated image?

[David M]

I see your chimpanzee avatar just fine. :rolleyes:

[glc]

I don't see anything in the vBulletin settings to prevent animated avatars.

[rspassey]

I made a post about this a while ago and PMed one of the mods (Hal I think)... I don't think we ever found out why.

[SonicVanguard]

I don't see anything in the vBulletin settings to prevent animated avatars.
See attached.

[Statica]

Yeah I noticed it too .. will bring this to GLC's attention. Thanks for pointing it out.

[glc]

Okay, I found it. Correct - as it stands right now, you cannot upload a new animated avatar. The staff is discussing this before I make any changes.

[glc]

Okay, it's enabled. 20k filesize limit, annoying and inappropriate ones in the staff's judgement will be removed, if you put one up and it disappears you will know what happened - we have the same attitude here as we do for sigs.

[RevCLB]

Hey Sonic, How do you keep your Giraffe bouncing up and down & winking it's eye? Does it eat site cookies?

[SonicVanguard]

Hey Sonic, How do you keep your Giraffe bouncing up and down & winking it's eye? Does it eat site cookies?
Nope - it's planting malware in HAL9000's system. :)

[rspassey]

Hey Sonic, How do you keep your Giraffe bouncing up and down & winking it's eye? Does it eat site cookies?

It is an animated GIF (a GIF is a type of image file). Basically, various photos together in a repeating pattern so that they look like it is moving.