Should Discourse convert GIFs to mp4 video files?

When comparing different documentation styles - all text, only video, text + gifs, the text + gifs option was vastly superior. Consequently, we plan on using gifs to demonstrate things in tutorial posts. However, if we can’t go fullscreen, or lightbox the gif, then written text can often be hard to see

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And as you see when you hover over, you only get the option to pause

But what we really need is to be able to make the gif full size. The work around is to right click and open in new tab, which is fine for our more expert users, but the other 90% can’t be expected to adapt to that. So either we need a way to have uploaded gifs use lightboxing so they go full size when clicked, or simply converted to mp4s so Discourse provides fullscreen functionality.

Also, the expanded tables functionality is :ok_hand: :star_struck: