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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      1 year ago

      Sorry, me again. I’ve re-hosted the file at catbox.moe instead, so hopefully it’ll stay there.

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          1 year ago

          Wait, there’s another app?!? I just tried looking at this community with Eternity, and it seems to have generally poor support for anything animated.

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      1 year ago

      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.