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No need to spend a lot of text on this one. The animated gifs bug enough people that we're getting rid of them. Next Friday we're going to process all of the images and cut them down to a single, static frame. If you have an animated avatar or community image, you have one week to update it or face the wheel of chance.
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Your no fun. Sometimes they come up with an interesting one...
Mark
Posted by: Mark Laymon | April 14, 2007 at 12:44 AM
Aww, no more bouncing boob avatars? =[
By the way, when I made my avatar, I saw that the standard size was 25x25 pixels, so I made it at that size so it would be as sharp as possible. But I noticed that after I uploaded it, it was still a bit blurry, as if it had been scaled -- or had gone through a GIF to JPEG to GIF translation or something.
PNG is where it's at anyway. =P
Posted by: Garrett Albright | April 14, 2007 at 04:11 AM
It's very good idea!
Posted by: Fanatyk | April 14, 2007 at 07:18 AM
Thank you Jesus! ...er, Eric!
While you are at it, please, please, set some image size restrictions! There is no reason for people to have 35KB Avatars that are 48x48. There should be a 10k max file size and a 0 tolerance policy.
I've had situations where loading the 9 MBL avatars on my page add up to over 200kb (none were animated). That is more than everything else on my page combined.
Thanks,
John
*****
Eric replies:
Thanks for the heads up. We're looking into it.
*****
Posted by: John Pozadzides | April 14, 2007 at 09:43 AM
Oh, I see… The standard size is 48x48, not 25x25. How did I screw *that* up?
Posted by: Garrett Albright | April 14, 2007 at 11:59 AM
Hallelujah!
Posted by: PAULA MOONEY | April 14, 2007 at 03:26 PM
"or face the wheel of chance."
Classic line Eric! Please keep up the good work y'all are doing.
Posted by: Chris Cree | April 14, 2007 at 03:27 PM
Thanks a lot for this wise decision!
Posted by: Happy Hotelier | April 15, 2007 at 02:33 PM
Thank you! Thank you! While they are ok to look at, sometimes my wife thinks I must be looking for porn or something with all the jiggling, wiggling stuff going on in a lot of the community pages.
Posted by: myfansites | April 15, 2007 at 03:01 PM
good thing! i really hate moving avatar.... pissed me off
Posted by: SELaplana | April 16, 2007 at 01:14 AM
AW..i need to change my avatar.. :(
Posted by: babyfiona | April 16, 2007 at 02:22 AM
This is my first visit to your site, but I had to comment on your recent decision to get rid of animated avatars. Thanks so much for deciding against those annoying things. :)
Posted by: Mark | April 17, 2007 at 04:32 PM
Thank you!
Posted by: DonaldHTaylor | April 18, 2007 at 02:31 PM
I'm very glad to hear it. Some
of those blinking avatars were
incredibly annoying.
Posted by: Harry L | April 19, 2007 at 11:21 AM
So...are they back? I saw one today on a community.
Posted by: Mommy's Getaway (Tam P) | May 17, 2007 at 04:47 PM
Is it true? i saw 2 or 3 animated avatar for the some communities there. example: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/VideoSphere/
-- reply from Ian Kennedy --
The animated graphic you see is not the userpic image but the screenshot. If you look to right, you'll see that the userpic is not animated.
Posted by: kento | November 04, 2007 at 08:05 AM
I've been kinda bummed about losing the avatar, but I came up with a replacement for creating animated avatars. It's not as cool, but it's something.
Posted by: Jason Brand | August 20, 2008 at 01:58 PM