Conversations: [Feature request] support for inline animated gifs

[S2-]

It would be nice if animated gifs shared in a conversation would be shown directly inline. at the moment an animated gif get's converted to jpg and shared ad jpg.

[syntafin]

You need to deactivate the picture compression in settings :)!

[timosl]

Maybe animated .gifs should be excluded from being compressed.

[tigre-bleu]

Either exclude GIF or at least add an option to "Keep GIF animation" if picture compression is activated.

[jkufner]

Antoine Vacher wrote, on 22.8.2016 11:07:

Either exclude GIF or at least add an option to "Keep GIF animation" if
picture compression is activated.

Such option does not make sense. Resizing without preserving animation
is broken unless it is explicitly desired to disable the animation
(avatars in user profiles for example, but that is not the case).

[blevant]

If this is inflicted please set default to not-loop animation.

[blevant]

I could see this to extend emoji use, but would tire of large gif

99x99 pixels
500kB

[JohnnyCalavera]

Since Open Whisper Systems added GIPHY to the Signal Messenger I guess more and more people will be using GIFs in their conversations.
I'd like to see inline GIF animations in 'conversations' too.

[licaon-kter]

Their implementation looks out of this projects scope though: https://whispersystems.org/blog/giphy-experiment/ since they control the chat server.

[JohnnyCalavera]

Absolutely. That's why I don't see a gif search engine coming to conversations, but we could have gif animations playing in the chat like they do in Signal for ages.

[stopANALytics]

No. Please, no.

[afonari]

Any updates here? I cannot move bunch of people to use conversations because of this!

[licaon-kter]

https://medium.com/@giphy/giphy-to-join-facebook-as-part-of-the-instagram-team-e7ea8d32d7b6