CAUTION: SLIPPERY WHEN WET
lemmy.world clobbered the gif in the main upload btw. Brought it in and turned it into a mp4, which the default web view doesn’t know what to do with when the thumbnail is expanded. (apps and frontends like photon have been able to process it though.)
I’m on Connect and had no problems. It’s a bit fucky with other stuff sometimes. Thanks for the heads up. If you know, what’s a fix for getting gifs to display correctly? This was from Tenor.
Yeah it’s just the default web view that struggles.
I don’t think there’s much of a fix, because it depends on the arbitrary decision that lemmy makes as to whether to just link to the file on an external site, or to try to download it and cache it. If it chooses the second option, then you’re fucked.
The possible solutions all suck for one reason or another: make a text post and use an inline link in the body; use a big file and/or a low-bandwidth site so lemmy gives up trying to bring it in; or link to non-embedded version (e.g. https://tenor.com/en-GB/view/walter-didnt-know-did-not-know-that-idk-gif-17888366).
Bit of a gamble or a full site link, got it. Well, thanks again.
It’s good ol’ Lemmy-UI being dumb with gifs again (it does the same with webps too), I’ve fought it for hours trying to post gifs to no avail
There is a fix that should work (I think) but it’s in the next release, whenever that’s coming out
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