2017 and no profile picture gifs?

[FlippinBricksForMonsaMusa]

come on I want to have a corgi falling over as a gif for my profile picture.

[Trinsec]

I'm actually so glad we don't have gifs... :)

[candyboy]

that would make steam lag and crash

[The End]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von FeelTheChic:

2017 and no profile picture gifs?

No, we do not need this, it's pointless bloat, and it will get abused, for all kind of crap.

BTW.
If you had used search, you would have seen this has been asked for a ton of times, and it's still a bad idea.

[lewlew]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von candyboy:

that would make steam lag and crash

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Trinsec:

I'm actually so glad we don't have gifs... :)

[Gwarsbane]

HECK NO!!!

If you want a more detailed reason why, use the search feature and read one of the other threads.

[ecznos]

No one needs it.

[Sovietball]

2017 And still not using the search feature?

[FlippinBricksForMonsaMusa]

sounds to me like you guys dont like cool things

[The End]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von FeelTheChic:

sounds to me like you guys dont like cool things

Gif anims as avatar is not cool, it's annoying.

[999999999]

We don't need animated or GIFs for avatars. And think of the users who have very limited connections. You want them to waste their data on junk like that? It's bad enough that artwork showcases allow seizure inducing GIFs.

[Theblaze]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Rockon:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von FeelTheChic:

sounds to me like you guys dont like cool things

Gif anims as avatar is not cool, it's annoying.

Animated avatars are in general - annoying.

[FlippinBricksForMonsaMusa]

nah fam they awsome

[697830]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von FeelTheChic:

sounds to me like you guys dont like cool things

You have cool things, in Arttwork / showcase, where it belongs on your profile.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=736635300
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamArtworkProfiles/new/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamArtwork/new/
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnimatedProfiles/new/

184x184 is overrated upgrade to 506px × 928px or more center page!

They also let you upload almost any static avatar you want on your profile that does not violate the rules.

[Gwarsbane]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von FeelTheChic:

sounds to me like you guys dont like cool things

Sounds to me like you don't understand that animated gifs will be heavy abused with porn and other stuff against the rules that will take a lot longer to verify that it is against the rules.

That animated gif suck up a lot of peoples bandwidth and not everyone has unlimited amounts that they can download, some have very limited data caps.

That many games that use a profile picture from steam will be broken because they can not understand an animated gif and that they don't have any devs around any longer to be able to fix that, and publishers will not hire more devs to work on the issues.

Sounds to me like you don't know how to use the search feature before ALL of this has been discussed before and no doubt will be talked about in the future because people are unwilling to try the search feature BEFORE making a suggestion.

[697830]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Gwarsbane:

size / bandwidth / abuse

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seems rather irrelevant, since they (Valve) already place a file size upload limit on all avatars / artwork. Also they don't verify any uploaded content until it is reported as inapropriate, even then, it might be awhile to takedown, like the inappropriate static avatars / animated artwork, and screen shots now.

The only thing I really see animated avatars affecting is maybe in games that might try and display the users avatar. Buy if mine displayed 404 I wouldn't care anyway.

Thought - Funny how, everyone jumps on people for complaining about game download and size patches, and tells them to get better internet 2017. Then says that a 184x184 or 506×928 8MB .gif on a profile is going to KILL everyones internet.
w/e have a look around at all the space / bandwidth wasters, killers.
http://steamcommunity.com/?subsection=images
http://steamcommunity.com/?subsection=broadcasts
http://steamcommunity.com/?subsection=videos