Does this website support animated gifs for profile icons?
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- Drew Sebastino
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Does this website support animated gifs for profile icons?
Just curious... I thought it was time for a makeover.
Also, is there a better place to put this? Well, actually, it's a simple yes or no question anyway.
Edit: Wait, I'm an idiot, bazz has one... That was pointless.
Also, is there a better place to put this? Well, actually, it's a simple yes or no question anyway.
Edit: Wait, I'm an idiot, bazz has one... That was pointless.
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Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
If it belongs somewhere, it's probably on the forum section about board maintenance: viewforum.php?f=13
I dunno why you have to ask the question though, just upload a GIF as your avatar and see what happens.
I dunno why you have to ask the question though, just upload a GIF as your avatar and see what happens.
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Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
It's because it's not built yet, and I don't want to waste my time if it's not possible.
Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
If he hasn't made the GIF already, asking before he starts could save him some time, and he might not want to have a random unrelated GIF stolen from somewhere as his avatar for a few seconds while testing. The question really should be in the phpBB section, though.rainwarrior wrote:I dunno why you have to ask the question though
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Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
There's a lot of people on the forum with animated avatars, so it's definitely supported.
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Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
If he'd just uploaded a random GIF his question would have been answered several minutes ago. I could test it myself right now, but I'm trying to encourage the principle of learning things for yourself, so I'd rather waste more time typing this response than it would take just to figure out the answer and tell him. Principles, right? Hrm.tokumaru wrote:If he hasn't made the GIF already, asking before he starts could save him some time, and he might not want to have a random unrelated GIF stolen from somewhere as his avatar for a few seconds while testing.
Why would a few seconds of avatar being "wrong" be a problem?
Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
I don't know, maybe he's having a conversation with someone and doesn't want to confuse that person? Or maybe he just doesn't want to be associated with random images in case someone sees the temporary avatar. Whatever. I wouldn't mind having a wrong avatar for a few seconds, but maybe someone else does.rainwarrior wrote:Why would a few seconds of avatar being "wrong" be a problem?
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Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
NOO!!! I didn't know there was a file size limit of only 20KB...
Somehow, I'll try and make this smaller: (I'll only have room for about 3 frames. )
Edit: Screw it, it's impossible to make it look good. I thought I was exaggerating by saying 3 frames, but it actually has to be that (and 80x80 pixels instead of 100x100.)
Somehow, I'll try and make this smaller: (I'll only have room for about 3 frames. )
Edit: Screw it, it's impossible to make it look good. I thought I was exaggerating by saying 3 frames, but it actually has to be that (and 80x80 pixels instead of 100x100.)
Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
Animated GIF size restrictions just reminded me of the time in Nsider fourms when I programed some lossy compression scheme to produce a 121 framed 129KB GIF file.
I've completely forgot what the original size was but I can dig up those old files from my archive if you are interested.
Edit: I removed the image embed, as the image itself wasn't really relevant.
I've completely forgot what the original size was but I can dig up those old files from my archive if you are interested.
Edit: I removed the image embed, as the image itself wasn't really relevant.
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- Drew Sebastino
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Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
Sounds good.JRoatch wrote:I've completely forgot what the original size was but I can dig up those old files from my archive if you are interested.
Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
You can always host the image yourself to avoid any size limits. But please be thoughtful of other users of the forum who might be on limited connections and may not want to download multi-megabyte avatars.
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Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
<-- Thought I'm just not active enough to have people noticed my avatar(or they just didn't wait enough).
Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
Every animated avatar I've seen on NESDev so far is relatively subdued, but a busy, bright animated avatar will irritate more than a couple people.
Re: Does this website support animated gifs for profile icon
If you want an animated avatar, you know where to find it.