I think allowing slightly larger filesizes would help alleviate some of the problems that users get when trying to upload something. (Sometimes you'll be just over the limit and it can be furiating to be that close but not be able to upload it). I agree though, no animated gifs please! My PC can't handle it!

Eighted.

Your PC can't handle .gifs? Holy shit.

we don't all have a top-of-the-range gif-handling computer, you know, Ench.

GAWD. such a show off.

Avatar filesize has been increased to 20kb. Now quit your whining.

That was easy. I wonder what else we could get if we all rallied together.

Getting this added as an emoticon.

http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/6928/oanstav.gif

Rallying is not important. Convincing someone who's actually gonna do something about it (i.e. me) that it needs doing is far more useful. And I didn't need much convincing, given that I was already of the view that 15kb was too small.


(sadly, they haven't set up any way to auto-stop a video at a certain point. You can stop after the soundbite)

So if we pester you enough you'll add it, but it won't be funny when anyone uses it?

Uhhh... how did you get that out of a post that was clearly saying the opposite?

Thank you.

The part at the end of the video.

I also didn't notice your brackets.

Oh. I see now how that could be interpreted as a mixed message.

Yes! Now I can have my avatar! It was only .5 KB over the original limit! :fuzmad:

Animated avatars still aren't allowed, though.

Really? They work if you're using Firefox or Opera to upload them and view them properly.

I said they're not allowed, I didn't say they didn't work.

Well so long as they're small (8KB for mine) and they don't oblitorate your eyeballs then they're not so bad are they?
Plus, small animations shouldn't take long to load at all. It will only take a while if you're viewing them on DSi Browser/Opera Mini (for brick phones) or if you've got a really bad dial-up connection.
IE will skip them also.

oh, well that's okay then. upload your avatar. get ready for it to magically disappear.

?

i said: oh, well that's okay then. upload your avatar. get ready for it to magically disappear.

I know what you said, I just don't understand why you said it would disappear.

He's implying that after you upload a new animated GIF, a mod will swoop in and delete it. But he's mistaken. It won't disappear; it just won't upload at all.

Then how come he managed it?

I'm pretty sure he uploaded that avatar before the rules were changed. Either that, or vBulletin fucked up. Both are equally believable.

When did the rule change? I don't remember it, so I doubt it was after his join date.

Reasonably sure by the rules changing, Nate means he's changed the upload thingy so you can't upload gifs anymore.

Maybe.

I may have chosen my words poorly; it wasn't a rule per se, but Alcar changed the permissions years ago so that no-one could use animated GIFs. I don't remember when it was precisely, or whether he announced it publically at the time.

When the official forum rules were updated last year, it was introduced formally.

I think I need to post in this thread to show off my avatar

It was the other day I uploaded it. It must've been a vBulletin glitch because the actual file was a .gif. Guess it was luck :p.

Unfrigginbelievable.

You're late.

So what does Oddman do after finding out that his animated avatar was only uploaded through some odd fluke and admits it? He uploads a different animated avatar.

I've worked out what you've done. Either you're smart enough to know how to game the vBulletin detection, or you're oblivious and very lucky.

That said, your animated avatar is still breaching the forum rules. If you don't change it, you'll lose it. Thus making MA's prediction true.


EDIT: Also, it's not animating in IE. I haven't decided yet whether that's because IE is smart or dumb.

I don't see it animating in Chrome either?

Same. Also how come Hobo is allowed a .gif? That's just not cricket!

That's because that specific avatar was uploaded in Firefox and can only be seen properly in Firefox or Opera.

Because Hobo is a legal troll around this place, I suppose.

THose toasts are cute though.. I just wanna snuggle and eat them ^^

You want to snuggle toast? Is Sekto okay with this?

Me and him will sandwich the toasts.