Avatar Capped Length

It used to be the case that as long as your avatar adhered to community guidelines and filesize limitations, anything flew. So, I took it upon myself to have the entirety of Bad Apple!! (3:39 long) play in real time as my avatar. It was a great talking point and many were amused by it.

However, sometime in the past few months Discord broke the ability to have long-playing avatars. My avatar cuts off early, playing under a third of what the full length is.

Contacting support resulted in them stating they won't fix what they broke unless it's a popular enough suggestion. "... if you would like to see changes to these systems in the future, then you can definitely vote up the suggestions at feedback.discordapp.com." No reasoning was given behind their current inability to support lengthy avatars.

It's shameless to not want to fix something they broke. Help me get back what once was.

OGMaro

June 04, 2020 04:04
Edited

In addition to this, the overall size in general while in a Voice Chat, is really small, so getting to see them, even with people that have GIF PFPs like I do, its a lil defeating that the hard work that we do don't get to be seen clearly. What I propose is that the icons get a 50% size increase. That way, its still not too big, and we get to see our icons a whole lot better.

ᗋéthylliᗋ

August 06, 2020 13:37

Bump.

I've since worked out that there's a frame number limit. Avatars cannot exceed ~2000 frames.

Why is this in place when there's already a file size limit on avatars?

I can still make avatars run for a very long time as long as the frame rate is low enough, so this limitation serves no purpose.

Comments