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)

  • Hawke@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      1 year ago

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

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    1 year ago

    [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
    
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      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.

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      1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

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

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    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.

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