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Sadly the support for APNG isn't great. For example on Discord GIFs works, but not APNGs. I also know of another service where, due to internal caching (IP hidi
by Etherlord87 5y ago
Sadly the support for APNG isn't great. For example on Discord GIFs works, but not APNGs. I also know of another service where, due to internal caching (IP hiding), APNGs get broken and don't animate.
- henriquecm8 5y agoIt should work because discord app uses electron, so it must be on purpose or oversight from discord's part.
- LordDragonfang 5y agoDiscord's media display stack seems to be broken (for lack of a better word) in some very naïve ways. For example, embedding files with the ".gifv" extension (used on several popular websites to denote gif-like animations which are encoded in a modern video codec) doesn't work, even though they're valid video files expressing a webm or mp4 mime type. It instead displays a static image, which means they're reading in the video, then generating a thumbnail and ignoring the fact it's a video.
- Etherlord87 5y agoI heard that APNGs used to work, but then people just uploaded their APNGs instead of using emotes, and using emotes from different servers is the main selling point of Dicord's freemium "nitro" AFAIK... Another reason could be that Discord caches images on its servers to hide viewer's IP from the original server hosting the image. The caching involves compression that sometimes breaks the image.