- Profile banners use a weird aspect ratio, but @TallanCat made a template.
- Cohost will not recompress your images. This does mean you have to compress them yourselves, but crucially, the image will look exactly as you uploaded it. I do not have particular suggestions of free compression tools, but as long as you avoid crunchy jpeg compression you'll probably end up with something better looking than other sites' automatic compression.
- The image/audio size cap is 5MB for regular users, and 10MB for cohost plus subscribers.
Except right now it appears to be 500kB for everyone due to server issues.Resolved - Specifically regarding icons, if it's too big consider lowering the resolution. On our 1080p monitor icons are never rendered at above 144x144 pixels.
- Animated GIFs can be used as profile pictures. GIFs downscale poorly, so may become more difficult to read at lower resolutions. (i.e. in notifications or comments)
- Icons also support transparency.
- Put a \ before >:3 at the start of a line to stop markdown rendering it as ":3".
- Press the ? on the post composer for a good intro to markdown and a some easy and useful HTML.
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in reply to @FaeAlchemist's post:
This is a great guide! One nitpick: the unit mB reads as millibytes, and you probably wanted MB or MiB for megabytes or mebibytes. Otherwise, those would be some very small upload limits indeed!
Oops. Got some wires crossed. I thought they loooked wrong, but neglected to actually check. Thanks :3
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Cohost will, however, stretch your image (for example) when you upload it directly, so is sometimes advisable to nearest-neighbor-upscale pixel art if you don't want it to look fuzzy. 
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