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Yes it is a gif image, and works very well here in the forums, but as an avatar the cat would not move!
Jul 23, 2016
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LaurenceGlazier wrote:
Maybe, and probably, it is a chess.com policy, as someone might possibly make an extremely distracting avatar.
I'd like to think it IS a Chess.com policy, for exactly the reason you give.
EscherehcsE wrote:
But it's probably a programming issue, because the animation shows the first time the webpage loads, but thereafter gets it maybe from cache on disk, and the animation no longer appears.
LaurenceGlazier wrote:
Maybe, and probably, it is a chess.com policy, as someone might possibly make an extremely distracting avatar.
I'd like to think it IS a Chess.com policy, for exactly the reason you give.
Jul 23, 2016
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I have seen animated avatars in the past. They are kind of distracting. 
Me too, a couple of times, though I never returned to check them a second time.
Jan 25, 2025
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I saw someone with an animated avatar on a forum. It was the Minecraft parrot dancing.
I would like to change my avatar to an animated one - I've tried it but it is only animated the first time the profile page is viewed, and thereafter is shown as a still.
I've been playing around with cinemagraphs - they are like still photos except for part which moves. Here's one I did yesterday, of a local cat. I would not move as much in my profile pic.
Any tips? I know it has nothing to do with file size, I have tried uploading a tiny gif file and the result is the same.
Maybe, and probably, it is a chess.com policy, as someone might possibly make an extremely distracting avatar.