Uploaded animated GIFs of 4MB or larger appear very small

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

@sam

To nuke gifsicle out of our docker image

Sure, less dependencies is better, isn’t it?

@sam

When you rebake old posts that had resized animated gifs, they should show up broken image glyph in the post

Probably OK

@sam

Fix our pull hotlinked images task, to bypass pulling gifs that are animated that required a resize, displaying a link instead

Simply check remote file size. If it’s too big, don’t pull. I do not care otherwise.

@sam

Reject animated gifs that are either too big (dimension or size) and are animated

Yes, mostly file size will be an issue I’d expect, long before height and width dimensions really matter. (In sing-song Twilight Zone “another dimension.. the dimension of tiiiiime”) This is also why it’s so frickin’ weird to treat an image like a video. They are rather different animals!

@sam

Remove support for animated avatars from Discourse.

Yes, nobody sane wants this.

@sam

Keep track of animated vs not animated in the uploads table.

We need this code path because we should eventually auto-convert GIFs to MP4s anyway. This gets us part of the way there and that’s a net positive to the world.