Hey all, Saw this thread here: .Gif files as profile pics? and I was able to set everything up correctly. My question is if there is a way to only allow a certain role or trust level to have GIF avatars. I’d like to start with only Admins/Mods - but maybe roll it out to trusted users after a certain time. That would also help with load as I’m just starting this project out. Thanks!

[image] MidnightCheesePizza: My question is if there is a way to only allow a certain role or trust level to have GIF avatars. It is possible to allow only site staff (admin and mods) to upload GIF avatars by adding gif to your site’s authorized extensions for staff site setting and removing gif from your authorized extensions site setting. There are no other groups that this can be controlled for, so you would not be able to gradually add other groups to the list. It would also prevent non-staff users from uploading GIF files to your forum’s posts.

Might I ask why? Not really sure I can immediately tell where that removal is deemed an improvement, but obviously I don’t know the full story.

There are also technical issues in the image processing pipeline for GIFs. Nobody cares enough to fix these issues because animated avatars are bad

Allow Only Admin/Mods GIF avatars

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) October 15, 2020, 12:42am 5

We are dropping support for animated GIF avatars in this release, sorry!

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Allow Only Admin/Mods GIF avatars

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