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I don't think users of your bot are happy to download every day 4MB for a profile picture :) It's just wasting resources.

Btw, animated images can be quite disturbing for some people with specific conditions (epilepsy, ADHD, autism), therefore, as a general rule, they are not recommended for good accessibility.
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Valentino Giudice 3mo ago

I think when it comes to accessibility it's better to disable animations on the client, rather than to avoid animated images altogether.

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daniele 3mo ago 💬 1

As a general rule, I agree.

But animation in a PFP is an incidental feature, actually a bug. Rendering a still image for gif/webp is not simple, often requires extracting the first frame or leverage some rendering exceptions to halt the animation. Better manage it at the source.

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Valentino Giudice 3mo ago

Getting the first frame, unless there is a way, in the format, to prescribe a different one (or even an alternative static image) seems pretty reasonable.

I don't like animated profile pictures, but I don't see accessibility as a reason to avoid them.