> Maybe it's just the color palette that makes it look better The color palette size definitely plays a part, but the vast majority of degradation is the resul

> Maybe it's just the color palette that makes it look better The color palette size definitely plays a part, but the vast majority of degradation is the result of scaling down. This is what a gif looks like which was captured at HD (1280x720) and scaled down to 670x377 http://gitsense.github.io/images/realtime-blog/master.gif http://gitsense.github.io/images/realtime-blog/master.gif The gif in GitHub's post hasn't been scaled down at all, which makes all the difference in the world.