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.

.Gif files as profile pics?

AlexBCodecademy (Codecademy ) December 4, 2015, 8:18pm 8

Thanks everyone!!

Best,
AlexB

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