How do I stop animated gif avatars?

[Stuart Wright]

They are so annoying, but I can't find a setting to turn them off for people.
Would have expected it to be a permission.
(I don't want to alter server settings which allow people to upload animated gifs into post etc.).

 

[Amaury]

Here on XenForo? You can't.

 

[oman]

They are so annoying, but I can't find a setting to turn them off for people.
Would have expected it to be a permission.
(I don't want to alter server settings which allow people to upload animated gifs into post etc.).

I think to be able to use them on your forum in the first place you need to have ImageMagick enabled - http://xenforo.com/community/threads/unable-to-enable-imagemagick.68520/#post-718282
You would likely need to disable it.

 

[Paul]

yup - if you select GD as your image processor instead of ImageMagick then the animations should stop...

 

[RobParker]

But that also stops attachments. I linked Stuart to another thread where someone had the same question and there was a hack to achieve it.

 

[Paul B]

It doesn't stop attachments, just use the default image processor.

 

[RobParker]

Do attachments not pass through the image processor then? How are thumbnails achieved then?

 

[Mike]

It would stop the thumbnail animation, yes. But it wouldn't touch the full size unless it's above your dimension limit and animated attachments are unlikely to be.

 

[Stuart Wright]

A simple restriction on the extensions of allowable avatars (with respect to Gravatar) would take care of it, wouldn't it?