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.
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!
No. I've not done anything. Maybe it was copyright-struck at imgbb. If I use them again, I'll create an account first, so at least I'll maybe be able to find out what happened.