ANIMATED AVATAR (GIF)

[C o r o n a]

is MY SUGGESTION/IDEA!!

[Cassidy]

That is a terrible idea, and here are my reasons why:

Slow Internet connection users will have an even harder time having to load all the animations
Resizing the gifs into the two smaller sizes that Steam also uses will make the quality bad anyway

You can say that artwork showcases already use gifs so why not avatars, but artwork showcase was NOT meant to display animations, the people who do are using a loophole.

[The End]

Originally posted by ็:

ANIMATED AVATAR (GIF)
is MY SUGGESTION/IDEA!!

No, horrible idea, one of the good things about Steamforums, is the lack of all these "myspace" things.

[Attack.games Ziaba]

no

[Gwarsbane]

NO!

Use the search feature in the future.

[Vault Hunter 101]

People would put all kinds of pron as their avatars.. no thanks

[Midnight Sky ✨🌙✨]

Originally posted by Vault Hunter 101:

People would put all kinds of pron as their avatars.. no thanks

People can already put porn as their avatars.

[Gwarsbane]

Originally posted by Mr. Gency:

Originally posted by Vault Hunter 101:

People would put all kinds of pron as their avatars.. no thanks

People can already put porn as their avatars.

Even worse porn that would be harder to weed out because instead of just looking at it for a sec and saying "yup thats porn" or "yup thats against the rules" (cause its something other then porn) they would have to watch the whole thing, making it take far longer. 30 seconds, a minute, 2 minutes for each one. Now times that by10s of thousands, 100,000s of thousands out of the many millions that are active daily. 10s of millions that are active weekly... There are around a total of 150 million active accounts, over 300 million accounts total.

Also again as was mentioned MANY times before. Animated gifs also take a lot of bandwidth to download and not everyone has unlimited bandwidth.

And of course there are some games that use the steam avatars in games, they might not be able to handle animated avatars and could potentially crash the games. And not every game has people around with the ability to put in a patch to stop them or fix it.

[Stovokorix]

I don't see much issue with this proposal and I think many of the arguments against it have easy solutions

For bandwidth, steam can both limit GIF file size and add an option to not display others' animated avatars

GIF duration can be limited to make moderation easier and framerate can be capped so that people can't sneak in something that's not allowed

When a game requests an avatar the steam servers can respond by sending a single frame of the animation, games could also be programmed to specifically request animated avatars if the creators so wished

Feel free to tear down my argument, I just wanted to give my own input

Edit: Just realised that this is 3 years old... whoops

[Ettanin]

There are people who are affected negatively by peripheral motion. No thank you.

[Χάρης]

Originally posted by Shish Cabal:

Originally posted by Vault Hunter 101:

People would put all kinds of pron as their avatars.. no thanks

People can already put porn as their avatars.

True.

+1 for animated avatars. I would like that as well.