Hi. The Klonoa speedrun community is trying to switch to animated trophy icons (base files are in the .gif format). So far they seem to display correctly to people... except for me (coincidentally, the moderator who is adding them).

I'm using chrome, these gifs display correctly when opened from / dragged to there. And they do correctly animate, when viewing them from the customisation panel... alas, that's as far as it is willing to go. To me, they show as still images on the board (or just about anywhere else really). Right-clicking > opening those ones up shows that they've been turned into .png files (when they should normally be .apng, at least that's what other users where this works tell me). Strangely enough, these files, when instead opened from the customisation panel, have the SAME extension as their public self, that is .png, yet they unexplicably work ?? In short summary, to me these .gif files when uploaded all turn into the same .png file extension that work in one place but nowhere else. Other people were able to see the change and the animation almost instantly after I had pushed it, so this shouldn't have anything to do with latency... ?

What could be happening ? How can I avoid this ?

Link to the board : https://www.speedrun.com/klonoa1

They work for me. Have you tried clearing your browser's cache?

Similar thing happened to me several times. Some of the theme pictures, like the trophy icons, are saved in server cache instead of browser cache. Sometimes it can take a while before you see any changes. I can also confirm that the gif icons work, so if you don't see them, be patient and you will see them eventually after a few hours (up to ~1 day).

They've just started working for me as well, like half an hour ago. They had been submitted without effect for almost a day at that point (well, with a bunch of test modifications halfway in, to no avail). I just don't know why it took so long for me, when it loaded up way earlier for others. I didn't really feel the cache thing would do anything, but I'll be sure to try that in the future, so thanks for the tip.

Anyways, that'll probably be the end of this thread unless some weird thing happens again for me to revive it. If someone has something to say though, especially about these issues, they're still free in doing so.

[Edit : Only saw your post, Oreo, after writing mine. Yea, seems like waiting is the main fix for most of these things]