One example is piefed unfortunately. Animated gifs as avatar or banner don't animate currently as far as I can tell.
Comment on PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months agoI mean, that’s already how animated .gifs work. If somehow you manage to load one into a viewer that doesn’t support the animation functionality it will at least dutifully display the first frame.
How the hell you would manage to do that in this day and age escapes me, but there were a fair few years in the early '90s where you might run into that sort of thing.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 months ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those are displayed in browser, right? The only reason that would be happening is if Piefeed is recompressing images and their code is not smart enough to identify an animated .gif and act accordingly.
BurgerBaron@piefed.social 2 months ago
Yeah in browser. I should probably open an issue ticket if nobody else noticed yet.
wjs018@piefed.social 2 months ago
Relevant issue: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/665
tl;dr - it's an issue with the pillow image library in python. It's on our radar though. I got posts working, but you have to click through, the thumbnail still isn't animated.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll bet you a shiny penny that’s what it is. The backend recompresses things to some other format, probably a low bitrate JPEG or something, in order to save space and/or in case some joker uploads a 90 megabyte uncompressed TIFF image to use as a profile pic, or something.
awesomesauce309@midwest.social 2 months ago
Probably most notably the iOS photos app until like 2014