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O.P. RE: Remove limit on/raise maximum filesize for animated .gif display pictures?
Sure I can be creative with 200KB, I just can't be detailed and creative. I could do simple flashing, banner type gifs easily at that size, but I was really hoping to do more short-story cartoon stuff with character animation.
I optimize all of my gifs, which is the reason I can get them down to 250KB in the first place, unfortunately the best way to optimize a gif is merely to take a bunch of frames out, leaving you with choppy animation. I do all of my work frame-by-frame anyway, so it ensures none of them go on wasted space.
Sure, bandwidth is always going to be an issue with anything like this, but I was hoping it would be something that would stand on the same level as increasing the character limit in messages does, and the way the oversized display pictures add-ons did a couple of years back. I suppose it just boils down to how much people want it, and if they're willing to use the bandwidth on it. Considering the very first gif I tried to use was apparently too big I thought that this would probably end up annoying quite a lot of people and increasing the size a bit would be a popular request.
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