Is there a trick to using a gif for an avatar?

[Goldom]

I see others with them, and searching the board turns up nothing unusual, and one post saying "just upload it like any other." It's under the limits for file and dimension sizes, but when I try uploading it, it becomes a static image (it's not just frozen - the file size goes down from 50k to 10k). Is there some special thing I need to do to it, or do they just not work anymore except for those already using them?

[Dr Rawr]

yea i have a problem using gifs also, my solution is to keep recreating the gif in a image editor as different file sizes till it works.

[helvetica]

There's security measures in place to prevent malicious images being used as avatars and GIFs tend to trip a lot of false positives.  I can't really offer any advice than tweak the GIF until it works, or use an APNG.

[Imosa]

GIFs tend to trip a lot of false positives.

How/why?

[helvetica]

The security scanner scans for malicious code and GIFs are most likely to trip the code.  With the end result being that the image is just converted to a static image, there's not much of a push to reduce false positives.

[Goldom]

Just noticed the reply. Thanks, but converting it to apng still didn't work. Oh well, I've already got a new avatar now anyway, so it doesn't matter anymore!