GIFs support, ahoy!
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This is a bit of a silly oneβ¦ but in advance of NodeBB v1.19.2, I wanted to take a minute and announce that weβll be supporting animated GIFs in post uploads and user avatars! Technically, this is not anything new. NodeBB did support animated GIFs via the ImageMagick plugin, but that has always been an [β¦]
Click here to see the full blog post
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@phenomlab said in GIFs support, ahoy!:
Personally, no. Animated GIFs seem like a 2000's throwback in my view. I used forums back in the day that had so many animated GIFs as avatars that it was enough to trigger an epileptic fit.
One can argue that GIFs are more relevant nowadays, with the popularity of tenor gif and other such integration into mobile keyboard, etc.
After all, a picture (even a moving one!) is worth a thousand words?
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@julian Good work!
Yea that aphorism or whatever it is, hasn't been updated for the modern age has it?
A picture worth a thousand words.
A moving picture, gee... could be infinite, ya got that time curve going on there, but yea, I think some forums will be very happy with native support - all hail teh gif master!
Well kids, just remember though, a post on a forum is worth at it's weight in naysayers, shills and bots, flame wars and requisite bans.
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@baris said in GIFs support, ahoy!:
@phenomlab I am offended
gifs are not showing up? it takes a pre-link "camo.nodebb.org....