Uploading GIFs is back! 🤖👾👻

Test 3 😅 Checking if the problem is just on giphy ☺️
http://littlesvr.ca/apng/images/GenevaDrive.webp
Edit // Nope, editing the comment and while writing it, it shows the webp as should, but on actual published comment it's not working 😕

Hmm it's weird because the urls which you are sharing are not ending on .gif, which to me is a hint that there is some type of block. It also seems impossible for me to upload this as a gif in the regular way.

Again I think this is due to protection from the website: They want you to watch that gif on their website, but they do not want you to copy and share that material.

What I always do is right-click the gif and go to "view image", so that it loads only the gif in a seperate tab. This way I know I copy the gif and that it will work.

I have tested it with gifs when the url ended up on .gif when I watch them, and there it worked in 99% of times:

The ending .webp is alternative for .gif, .webp is file type made by Google (open source) that has also ability to play back small video snippets in similar way that .gif's work 🙂 So the problem is with the file type that appears in search results when searching for .gif's to use. Many .gif sites seem to have already converted to use .webp, thus it would be nice addition to include support for the platform 😊

Aaaah thanks, that was new to me! 😃 I will pass this on so that we can look into it. I know there is some third party involved in this so it might not be totally in our hands, but I will check on that.