diff --git a/lemoncurry/msgpack.py b/lemoncurry/msgpack.py
index 4a5fb57..6328f2c 100644
--- a/lemoncurry/msgpack.py
+++ b/lemoncurry/msgpack.py
@@ -1,24 +1,11 @@
 import msgpack
-import pickle
 
 from django_redis.serializers.base import BaseSerializer
 
 
-def default(obj):
-    # Pickle anything that MessagePack can't handle itself.
-    return msgpack.ExtType(69, pickle.dumps(obj, protocol=4))
-
-
-def ext_hook(code, data):
-    # Unpickle if we pickled - otherwise do nothing.
-    if code == 69:
-        return pickle.loads(data)
-    return msgpack.ExtType(code, data)
-
-
 class MSGPackModernSerializer(BaseSerializer):
     def dumps(self, value):
-        return msgpack.packb(value, default=default, use_bin_type=True)
+        return msgpack.packb(value, use_bin_type=True)
 
     def loads(self, value):
-        return msgpack.unpackb(value, ext_hook=ext_hook, raw=False)
+        return msgpack.unpackb(value, raw=False)
diff --git a/users/views.py b/users/views.py
index addace3..83ed965 100644
--- a/users/views.py
+++ b/users/views.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
-from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page
 from PIL import Image
 
 from lemoncurry import utils
@@ -13,7 +12,6 @@ def try_libravatar_org(hash, get):
     return HttpResponseRedirect(url)
 
 
-@cache_page(60 * 15)
 def libravatar(request, hash):
     g = request.GET
     size = g.get('s', g.get('size', 80))
@@ -44,12 +42,8 @@ def libravatar(request, hash):
         return try_libravatar_org(hash, g)
 
     im = Image.open(user.avatar)
-    image_type = im.format
-    natural_size = min(im.size)
+    im_resized = im.resize((size, size))
 
-    im = im.crop((0, 0, natural_size, natural_size))
-    im = im.resize((size, size), resample=Image.HAMMING)
-
-    response = HttpResponse(content_type='image/'+image_type.lower())
-    im.save(response, image_type)
+    response = HttpResponse(content_type='image/'+im.format.lower())
+    im_resized.save(response, im.format)
     return response