animated .gifs as userpic = not working?

Apr 9, 2014 at 4:52 AM
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for some reason I can't use an animated .gif as my userpic.

I know it's possible because capt. fab uses one.

This is the .gif I'm trying to use

diph.php


Did the site break or something?
 
Apr 9, 2014 at 5:06 AM
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it doesn't work if it has to resize it
 
Jun 15, 2014 at 5:45 AM
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I've mad a gif image and i can't seem to get it to animate in my icon. it's of my remade cave story character.

itried.gif
 
Jun 15, 2014 at 6:26 AM
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question merged as duplicate
 
Jun 15, 2014 at 1:18 PM
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If it still wasn't clear

Noxid said:
it doesn't work if it has to resize it
 
Jul 15, 2015 at 5:24 AM
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I am aware this is an old topic, but here goes.
So I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing wrong, but I cannot figure out how to use a gif as my icon. I don't quite understand what is meant by "It doesn't work if it has to resize it"; the only thing I can think it means is that I have to manually resize the file, but any attempt to do so provides no success.
 
Jul 15, 2015 at 5:34 AM
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if your gif is larger than the allowed icon size it has to resize it on the server side
so don't make it that big
then it will work

http://ezgif.com/optimize
 
Jul 15, 2015 at 5:54 AM
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I've saved the gif multiple times, each under 4 kilobytes, and I've tried various resolutions around 200x200, and I used the site you linked to, however the icon still isn't animated...
 
Jul 15, 2015 at 6:15 AM
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ok but avatars are not 200x200, I hope you realize that
 
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