Very large gifs should be shown as previews

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gifs should probably be frowned upon. Here’s the video version that imgur created automagically for me at Imgur: The magic of the Internet

it’s a 1.93 mb .webm file:

General
Format                         : WebM
Format version                 : Version 2
File size                      : 1.94 MiB
Duration                       : 11s 400ms
Overall bit rate               : 1 427 Kbps
Writing application            : Lavf55.48.100
Writing library                : Lavf55.48.100

Video
ID                             : 1
Format                         : VP8
Codec ID                       : V_VP8
Duration                       : 11s 400ms
Bit rate                       : 1 364 Kbps
Width                          : 640 pixels
Height                         : 374 pixels
Display aspect ratio           : 1.711
Frame rate mode                : Constant
Frame rate                     : 25.000 fps
Compression mode               : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)             : 0.228
Stream size                    : 1.85 MiB (96%)
Default                        : Yes
Forced                         : No

Perhaps ask your users to host somewhere that large GIFs are converted to videos..

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