.Gif files as profile pics?

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The discussion revolves around using .gif files as profile pictures on Discourse. AlexBCodecademy inquired about the possibility, and KevinWorkman confirmed that it’s supported through the admin control panel by enabling the “allow animated avatars” checkbox. After enabling this feature, KevinWorkman noted that running the avatars:refresh rake task is necessary. Alankrit_Choudh and Alankrit_Choudh sought clarification on how to run this task, which KevinWorkman and zogstrip explained involves SSHing into the server, entering the app, and running rake avatars:refresh. AlexBCodecademy thanked everyone for their assistance.

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

From the settings page:

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

5

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 ?

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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 rake avatars:refresh.

7

Your presumptions are :+1:

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Thanks everyone!!

Best,
AlexB