Really like the new Avatars, cool feature! But does anyone else find they take a long time to load. Both in the editor and in rants?

yes it is slow.

If a cached version of the avatar hasn't been generated yet it could be slow since the image is created on-demand. After that, it gets cached in various places. We will be implementing some strategies in various places to make it faster, but as more people use it it should get faster on its own as more combinations become cached.

@dfox I really hope the deep linking is added soon. Basically its useless opening notifications. Also gif should auto play on WiFi right now its weird.