# Animated Avatar

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-avatar/220445>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Tags:** experimental\
**Created:** [March 8, 2022, 6:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-avatar/220445 "2022-03-08T18:24:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/crius/32/317214_2.png) [@Crius](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Crius)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 6:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-avatar/220445/18 "2023-03-15T18:19:15Z")

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Some users are reporting the avatar being returned as `.png` despite the media type being `gif`.

At this time I’m just trying to understand if it’s something that could be related to the plugin/discourse/nginx or user.

I’ve already a use case in which the issue was the user accessing their Windows machine via RDP but in a specific report I’m having a user with Windows 10 Version 22H2 OS Build 19045.2728 and Chrome 111.0.5563.65 (64bit) but this is what is being returned to the browser:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/d/3/c/d3cb28360d97a5df682f2594475581ba3afee2be.png)

The 108\_2.png is an avatar.

If I check the same topic, I can see that I’m receiving the same image but with `.gif` extension and in fact it loads animated for me.

However, trying to reach the file directly shows me that two versions exists, both a `.png` version and a `.gif` version

`https://netgamers.it/user_avatar/netgamers.it/borzo/100/108_2.gif`  
`https://netgamers.it/user_avatar/netgamers.it/borzo/100/108_2.png`

For some reason, that users is not receiving the `gif` version. but he’s matching all the settings I’ve set up for the plugin:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/3/c/b3c6e83d6f96f433bdbbe8a8af229e7a26ee5b17.png)

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