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Perfect size and aspect for avatars?

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#1 ·
What do you suggest. My new Godzilla lost his borders on vertical sides. Sad Godzilla is sad.
 
#3 ·
Recently uploaded avatars now use the data uri scheme, old avatars unaffected. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme . So recently uploaded GIF avatars no longer cycle. Also see this post:

Will post this here since i don't think there's a point into making a new thread. Seems that when uploading an avatar now the original image is compressed to much and thus the image quality way to low, thus all new uploaded avatars since the update don't seem to look very good. Tried as an experiment uploading both png's and jpg's. But they all ended up converted to jpg with to much compression. The only exceptions seem to be avatars like the one i'm currently using that are heavy on transparency. Before the update you could have at least have had better results by using a 96x96 png image but now not even that works anymore.
Same reason.

So it seems like a change in the xenforo settings maybe? ALso maybe it could be reversed, animated GIF avatars are cool. Also detracts from quality of avatars it seems.

Have you looked at the "address" of your avatar? Uses data uri scheme now. it's something like this, but actually gets corrupted when I post.

data:image/jpeg;base64,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
 
#4 ·
Adresses are normal on browsers not based on Chrome. Not sure if recent but that may be part of a server stack optimisation (modspeed and related) affecting only future uploads rather than retroactively applied.

edit; well skip that skippy, seems existing avatars thumbnails got reconverted to very low quality jpegs (under 5kb for moniprofiles?).
 
#8 ·
Its not changing, even on gravatars site. God I miss when the internet was not full of this Mickey Mouse coding.

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/8881/how-can-i-make-an-animated-avatar-for-gravatar-com

There's a quote from Gravatar.
It was a conscious choice not to accept animated images. On the whole most people don’t like them, and it can seriously detract from the look and feel of a site. Since we (all) are guests on peoples web pages we do our best to play nice with the other kids while we are there.

Thank you mommy of the internet.
 
#9 ·
Its not changing, even on gravatars site. God I miss when the internet was not full of this Mickey Mouse coding.

http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/8881/how-can-i-make-an-animated-avatar-for-gravatar-com

There's a quote from Gravatar.
It was a conscious choice not to accept animated images. On the whole most people don’t like them, and it can seriously detract from the look and feel of a site. Since we (all) are guests on peoples web pages we do our best to play nice with the other kids while we are there.

Thank you mommy of the internet.
***** ISSUE SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN FIXED ****

Something interesting has happened since your first post: data uri avatars seems to have been removed and replaced by image files.

So the issues you brought up earlier seem to have been reversed by ngemu staff presumably.

Try uploading your earlier avatar GIF, I think it should be OK now.
 
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