Does discourse support gifs? Is there anyway to have a GIF as a profile picture?

Yep, it’s supported. Go to your admin control panel → Settings tab → Files section, and then look for the “allow animated avatars” checkbox.

after doing that, do we need to ./launcher rebuild app ?

From the settings page: WARNING: run the avatars:refresh rake task after changing this setting.

I dunno where and what to do about that, where do i type avatars:refresh rake ? is it var/discourse/ or would it be ./launcher enter app ?

I’m not really an expert either. I googled “discourse rake task” and got this discussion , in which @zogstrip says this is how to run a rake task: # ssh into server cd /var/discourse ./launcher enter app rake uploads:migrate_to_new_pattern I presume that you would simply change that last line to ra…

[image] KevinWorkman: I presume that you would simply change that last line to “rake avatars:refresh”. Your presumptions are :+1:

.Gif files as profile pics?

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zogstrip Décembre 3, 2015, 5:18 7

Your presumptions are

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.Gif files as profile pics?

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