I’ve been trying to post gifs, but the experience changes from mobile to desktop. Sometimes it appears and plays properly, sometimes it doesnt. Is there a best-practice that I should get used to for formatting, or is there a reliable image hoster that supports it in a way thats compatible with Lemmy?

I just want to share tha spinning mouse dammit

  • PyroEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    I’ve just posted a WebP to a random test community I found: https://lemmy.world/post/1486008

    For me, I can see it animated in the thumbnail and the expanded post both on lemmy.world and the mobile apps I use (Voyager/wefwef, and Liftoff).

    • @chaorace@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Interesting! I tried uploading the same image and it became static (link). I think that seals it – definitely a backend issue. The question remains as to why that’s happening, but it’s definitely tied to something about the configuration of the user’s home instance. Credit where it’s due: exactly as you’ve suggested

      • PyroEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Your image appears static for me too!

        Credit where it’s due

        I’m a developer by trade, we tend to have relatively accurate hunches about these things haha
        Hopefully this is something that can be fixed (or at least toggled per-user) soon.