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Dance Off

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

This webp file was uploaded to an external site (not many support animated webp files, but ImgBB is one I found that does).
I've used the full URL (rather than the direct hot-link), because using the hot-link often results in Lemmy pulling the file in and re-compressing it.
(edit: imgbb deleted the original post, have re-uploaded to catbox.moe instead. Whether lemmy lets a file stay on catbox, or copies it in and re-compresses it though, is difficult to determine)
An alternative is to make a text post, and hot-link the image as an inline link in the body. This has decent support on mobile clients, but it looks more like you've made a mistake in your upload for web clients.

Lossy .webp file, 1.16MB, uploaded to ImgBB

Desktop

web:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? no, Loop? yes
alexandrite:
Thumbnail? yes (but cuts image), Loads in post? no, Loop? yes
photon:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? yes (but cuts image), Loop? yes
tesseract:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes
mlmym:
Thumbnail? static image, Loads in post? no, Loop? yes (on click-through)

Mobile (thumbnail refers to Link View)

sync:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes
voyager:
Thumbnail? no (broken image), Loads in post? yes (but cuts image), Loop? yes
connect:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? no, Loop? yes (on click-through)
liftoff:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? no (still thumbnail size), Loop? yes
jerboa:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? no (still thumbnail size), Loop? yes
thunder:
Thumbnail? yes, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes

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

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  • I’m going to edit this after I check the other iOS apps I have - stay tuned

    Voyager - plays in feed, loops, plays in post. Not sure what you mean by thumbnail, I do the expanded view for feed.

    Updated info -

    Thunder - doesn’t have the gif in the post? I must be doing something wrong, I assume…? But I can’t see that I’ve done anything wrong so the iOS version of thunder really doesn’t seem to like it.

    Lemmios, memmy, and Mlem - does not play, just shows a still. Clicking it brings up the still.

    Wefwef plays, loops.

    Hope this helps! Most of your apps looked like android, so may as well! (Low-key I enjoy doing these comparisons)

    • Thank you. Much appreciated. I don't have iOS, so I'm very reliant on this kind of info.

      I'll make one big [META] post at some point, listing the relative pro/cons of file formats and upload sites, as well as how well they're supported in the various apps.

      • If you ever need other, or more detailed, testing, lmk (I have an iPhone, older Samsung tablet, and an android phone from about 3 years ago). There’s a few iOS apps I tend not to keep/use because they are ad-driven or paid (there’s a place for that ofc, I’m just not it) and I can download them to test on if desired, but they aren’t part of my normal lineup, only die-hards of that particular dev tend to use them.

        I’m willing to do it rigorously as well, with more detailed info. I did a quick check today, but I’m happy to contribute what I can to finding good systems!

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