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Possibility of animated forum avatars

Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
edited August 2012 in Archive (General Discussion)
Hey folks!

Well, the question's in the title. Would it be possible to have animated avatars on the forums, sometime in the future? I just like animated avatars and was wondering... So, what do you guys think? Animated forum avatars: yay or nay? Discuss! :)

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  • DelvonDelvon Member Posts: 77
    Umm.. .gif's don't work? @kitteh_on_a_cloud
  • CheesebellyCheesebelly Member Posts: 1,727
    If I had any clue on how to make a gif, I'd try if it works or not. I'd LOVE to have em, so I can stick all 18 of my Boovatars together in one glorious animation! 8D
  • Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
    Delvon said:

    Umm.. .gif's don't work? @kitteh_on_a_cloud

    Yeah, they don't work. My current avatar is actually a gif. file, an animation. Yet it doesn't seem to work...
  • BugratBugrat Member Posts: 118
    I personally like it the way it is. I get distracted looking at a bunch of flashing/moving animated junk on forums. Maybe that's just me.
  • CheesebellyCheesebelly Member Posts: 1,727
    Tried it myself, .gifs indeed don't work. It's a shame :/
  • Space_hamsterSpace_hamster Member Posts: 950
    NO. ;)
  • CheesebellyCheesebelly Member Posts: 1,727
    @Space_hamster : b-but... You are a boovatarian brother, surely you'd understand the necessity of a dancing Boo? :'(
  • Space_hamsterSpace_hamster Member Posts: 950
    Animated gifs give boo seizures lol
  • Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
    @Bugrat: Not every animation is 'junk' as you describe it. Some animations can be really beautiful or fun to look at. Or do you consider them childish?

    @Cheesebelly: I'd love to see a sequence featuring all of your different Boovatars. :p
  • BugratBugrat Member Posts: 118
    Kitteh_On_A_Cloud said:

    @Bugrat: Not every animation is 'junk' as you describe it. Some animations can be really beautiful or fun to look at. Or do you consider them childish?

    I was just using 'junk' as a synonym for 'stuff'. That's just the way people talk in my part of the world, so that's the weird way I constructed my sentence. I did not mean it to be as a universally negative thing.

    Yes, some animations are cool, but others are very distracting. It's like having a fly crawling around on the corner of my monitor that keeps drawing my eye from the text I'm trying to read.
  • Kitteh_On_A_CloudKitteh_On_A_Cloud Member Posts: 1,629
    @Bugrat: I understand, they can be distracting indeed. But to be honest, the forum avatars aren't really THAT big, or are they?
  • DelvonDelvon Member Posts: 77
    Bugrat said:

    I get distracted looking at a bunch of flashing/moving animated junk on forums. Maybe that's just me.

    Definitely just you. It's me as well, although sometimes they're pretty amazing. Most of them are horrible though.

    @Cheesebelly try her: http://mothereffinganimatedgif.com/ - a pretty easy way to make gifs.
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