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Cheerleader Revelations [meta: actual gif => giphy.com] (media.giphy.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by freamon to c/gifs

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I'm doing some testing to see what the best format / upload site is.

.gif file, 7.24MB, uploaded to giphy.com

Desktop

web:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes
alexandrite:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? no, Loop? yes (on click-through to external site)
photon:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes

Mobile

sync:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes
voyager:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes
connect:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes
liftoff:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes
jerboa:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? no, Loop? yes (on click-through to external site)

I don't have access to every front-end and mobile app available. Please share your experiences with whatever it is you use. Thanks.

(gif is from the film Bottoms, btw)

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[–] Hawke 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Memmy: thumbnail, yes; loads in post, yes; loop, yes.

Not sure it’s technically a thumbnail since it looks the same, but it does load, display, and loop at the main scrolling view.

[–] freamon 4 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the info. (Buy, yeah, the distinction between these things can feel a bit arbitrary for mobile apps)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

[BUG] Opening the clip doesnt work

While the preview/thumbnail is played without any problems, clicking on it leads to a "Content not available"

Device information

Sync version: v23.09.13-18:19    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

View type: Slides    
Push enabled: false    

Device: a53x    
Model: samsung SM-A536B    
Android: 13

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

same here

[–] freamon 1 points 1 year ago

I'm typing this using Sync and get the same. I wonder what Sync is doing that other clients aren't. I'll have a look at their GitHub and see if it's already been reported as a bug.

[–] takeda 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thunder: thumbnail: yes, loads in post: yes, loops: yes

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I hadn't heard of Thunder. But I've downloaded it now, and will use it for future testing.

[–] Live_your_lives 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm on Jerboa and it was a yes on all of them for me.

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago

Aha. I've just found the 'auto-play gifs' setting in Jerboa, which means it plays in the post now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for this detailed research 😍 can confirm the thumbnail doesn't load on Alexandrite, and I need to click through to see the gif.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tesseract:

Thumbnail: yes

Post: yes

Loop: yes

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I've only found Tesseract via db0, but I'll be able to use that for future tests

[–] itsathursday 1 points 1 year ago

Mlem: thumbnail? No, loads in post? Url card displayed but no image, loop? No