My issue with increasing the maximum filesize of avatars is as it has always been - that it contributes to extra bandwidth being consumed server-wise and that it forces people on dial-up connections to wait longer for pages to completely load.
5KB is an awful lot when you really look at it. Using JPEG compression at a reasonable level of quality (75% is the common percentage) can produce 100 x 100 images between 3KB and 5KB. However, I can understand that there are situations where a larger filesize is warranted. Therefore I've increased the limit to 8KB. I think that's a very fair compromise.
As for animated avatars and profile pictures, I'm strongly against it - I think it's okay (begrudgingly) for signature images to be animated, but I don't want avatars flying around with flashy colours and do-dads.
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