Currently, profile pictures must be 500×500 pixels or less, must be 512 kilobytes or less, and must be a bitmap file format. However, TastyLittleMuffin's uploaded profile picture, https://uploads.scratch.mit.edu/users/avatars/3845408.png, is 2000×2000 pixels, which is greater than 500×500px. The same applies with KrIsMa's profile picture at 636×542 pixels. How is this possible?

I misinterpreted the question, never-mind

The resolution limitations are new. Before that, you could upload much higher resolution images.

Uploads shows images bigger.

mtech22 wrote:

Uploads can display images at higher resolutions, even if the pfp was uploaded at 500x500

mybearworld wrote:

Uploads shows images bigger.

Both of you are wrong. Uploads shows images at the resolutions they were uploaded to the site in, right now you couldn't get uploads or cdn2 to display an image higher than 500x500.

What I think is more likely is what awesome-llama said, the user in question must have uploaded their picture before the limits were set.

ScriptTimedOut wrote:

mtech22 wrote:

Uploads can display images at higher resolutions, even if the pfp was uploaded at 500x500

mybearworld wrote:

Uploads shows images bigger.

Both of you are wrong. Uploads shows images at the resolutions they were uploaded to the site in, right now you couldn't get uploads or cdn2 to display an image higher than 500x500.

What I think is more likely is what awesome-llama said, the user in question must have uploaded their picture before the limits were set.

I think they both joined after the limit was added. I can't remember when it happened, but it might have been a while ago now. I don't often change my pfp so I can't say exactly.

What I do have is some additional proof when the limit didn't exist:


This is my original profile picture. It is above the limit and there are no smaller file sizes that I used.

Reading all your answers, it looks like one of those “grandfather clause” situations in Scratch. For example, a user called explodingtoilet exists when the word “toilet” is no longer allowed in your username when signing up. I don't know why TastyLittleMuffin used 2000×2000 pixels for a pixel-art muffin profile picture, though, as most profile pictures across websites normally aren't that big.

Bump.

Isn't this question answered? The images were uploaded before those limitations were imposed, and those limitations prevent uploading new images, not deleting old ones.

fdreerf wrote:

Isn't this question answered? The images were uploaded before those limitations were imposed, and those limitations prevent uploading new images, not deleting old ones.

As soon as the limits are changed, old ones should be immediately checked and maybe reset to the default profile picture, but maybe Scratch makes exceptions like not deleting explodingtoilet after the word toilet is no longer allowed in usernames.

46009361 wrote:

As soon as the limits are changed, old ones should be immediately checked and maybe reset to the default profile picture

Why? That seems very disruptive since a lot of profile pictures before then would be reset.

fdreerf wrote:

Isn't this question answered? The images were uploaded before those limitations were imposed, and those limitations prevent uploading new images, not deleting old ones.

This is the answer.