# Animated GIF avatars no longer supported by default

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gif-avatars-no-longer-supported-by-default/167224
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [October 14, 2020, 6:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gif-avatars-no-longer-supported-by-default/167224 "2020-10-14T18:51:01Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2020, 4:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/animated-gif-avatars-no-longer-supported-by-default/167224/24 "2020-12-17T04:21:48Z")

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Still works on user cards just fine, check mine.

We removed support from avatars because we have to resize those a lot, which isn’t a problem in user cards.

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