Image Format Changes

[Matt Sanford]

Hi all,

I'm sorry for the late notice but I just got word from our User
Experience (UX) group that they are testing a change to stop accepting
GIF images for the avatar (profile_image) and profile wallpaper
(profile_background_image). For every image we have to verify the
format and size, and then create the thumbnail version. GIF images
consistently fail at that and report 'possibly too large' because we
can't tell what went wrong.
There is no plan to remove existing GIF images. You'll still be
able to use JPEG (image/jpeg and image/jpg) and PNG (image/png)
images, but new GIF images will no longer be accepted. This code
should be ready within the next week, so if your code is automatically
dealing with images you may want to start disallowing GIFs. Again, I'm
sorry for the late notice on this … snuck up on me as well.

Thanks;
— Matt Sanford / @mzsanford