It's 100% a black art. You need to upload as webp instead of gif, a square, dimensions a power of 2, Venus rising, milk and cookies (because all this work is tiring), and exported with the proper rites according to the Adeptus Mechanicus codex #118.

EDIT: I'm not even sure power of 2 is necessary lol. Mine isn't!

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Ok I got it working but it's kind of fucked up now and has weird grey squares in it

Edit: just to test I'll see if it acts the same way here:

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah........... sadness

It took a few different tries at resizing and exporting to get it sort-of ok.

[–] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

have you tried using ezgif?
https://ezgif.com/webp-maker
there are repair tools for gifs, converts to webp, also optimisations to reduce file size

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I tried it and somehow it got worse shatter

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Making it smaller by changing the file dimensions seems to make it render correctly.

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for the help but it still seems to be happening for some reason

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Hm, it looks like you're right. I don't know what's causing it. Hexbear is doing something to the image on the backend after it's uploaded that causes these blocking artifacts.

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sigh. I changed my profile picture for troubleshooting purposes, and now when I try to change it back to my signature rotating hammer and sickle I get an error code on that specific image and I just can't get it working again no matter what I do. guts-rage What the fuck is going on in the backend code.

[–] CriticalOtaku@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago

I tried to switch back to the bocchi pfp I used when we got pfp's and it doesn't work now either lol

[–] ElGosso@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago

How though?

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They do. One comrade over on Hexbear has a rotating hammer and sickle.

Also, I really like the edited Richard Stallman onto Bateman lmao

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ok I'll try adding it again, maybe I did it wrong

[–] Budwig_v_1337hoven@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago

You could try asking @SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net how she did it.

I'm guessing it has to be very small in size and formatted in a specific way for it to actually play. There might be some fiddly sub-settings of exporting .gifs involved that I barely know exist.

[–] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

I think maybe hexbear might just not be allowing gif uploads to pfps rn or something

I'm not sure shrug-outta-hecks

[–] proletarian_girlboss@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 2 years ago

I have seen people with gif pfps before I think, so it is possible somehow.