Avatar Question

[mistercindy]

I'm on several forums and typically use a martini avatar. My favorite (I use it on ADVrider and a couple of other forums), is animated in that the swizzle stick with an olives moves stirring the drink. Kinda cool! Anyway, when I first got on BMWMOA's forum I tried to upload it and got a window that says:

"You may not upload animated images."

It gives no reference to size. It simply says that I can't upload it because its animated. No big deal, I just found a non-animated substitute. Well, the other day I noticed an animated avatar and thought that the forum had changed to allow them, so I tried again and got the same window. I got curious and looked for others and found four animated avatars belonging to the following: Holly, lorazapan, Braddog, and deilenberger (there may be others). Obviously one can upload animated avatars, so the message I'm getting isn't right.

So, I thought it might be a matter of size. My animated avatar pixel size is 50 x 66 and is 3,854 bytes. I'm not a computer geek, but from what I read my avatar seems well within the size limits for this forum (the limits are 59 x 70 pixels and a byte size no bigger than 19,500). I then compared it to the four other animated avatars I found on this forum. The byte size of my avatar is smaller than three of them (the largest barely qualifies at 19,495), and my pixel size is smaller than two of them (the largest is 70 x 60).

Then I thought that it might be my computer, so I tried from three computers and I get the same window from each.

I'd like to use my moving martini! What gives?

 

[rdalland]

I just tried uploading (as well as linking to) an animated avatar. No luck.

 

[mistercindy]

Any mods willing to chime in?

 

[sheridesabeemer]

my guess is the rule changed, and as long as you already had one, it's still there, but it's no longer a valid file extension.

The question then is why the change? Are we really that hard up for space?

 

[wezul]

Hey, just a bump here but I'm curious as to what the rules are and why. Can we get a ruling or . . . . . ?

You'd really like my animated avatar, honest!

 

[mistercindy]

Well...?

Mods? Any answers?

 

[testinglogin]

I do believe it was a rule change that happened. Anyone with an animated avatar kept theirs but the system will not allow new ones. Since I wasn't a mod at the time, let me verify that information, as well as the reasoning for it and then I'll update.

 

[mistercindy]

Thank you, sir!

 

[Omega Man]

Avatar post

At least you all have figured out how to get an original avatar up and running. I have been here in forum land for about 4 months. Working my way through has been slow. When there is a change such as the animated non-animated as you spoke of, complicated by the fact that you are moving between sites that are using the same software-just different versions it fouls up my learning curve.