Meta converte gif in jpg

[bartv (Bart)]

When I post a gif here on meta it gets converted to jpg. This happens both when I upload it directly, or simply post a link to one:

Replace Spinner with a logo

For a bit of extra fun we decided to challenge our community to design new spinners, we’ll change the animation once a month or so. The first one we selected represents the rendering process in Blender: [image] Edit: oops, meta converts uploaded gifs to jpg :-/ Click here to see the original (or visit our site to see it in action).

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

This is certainly a feature.

See the png to jpg quality site setting. You can disable by setting png to jpg quality to 100

[bartv (Bart)]

Hmm but this is a gif, not png?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

We probably need to fix the site setting name here, cc @nbianca … also we should only apply this to non animated gifs.

[orenwolf (Ken Snider)]

Confirmed this is removing animated gifs as they are posted.

[smrtey]

I changed setting png to jpg quality to 100 and it’s still turning animated gifs into jpgs

[orenwolf (Ken Snider)]

Same. I tried changing recompress original jpg quality and image preview jpg quality to 100 to disable them as well without success. Fixing this will likely require a code change methinks (which I’m sure they’re working on now).

[jamie.wilson]

FIX - don't attempt to optimized animated images

This was merged in about an hour ago (complete with a typo in the commit message).

The merge includes a test to ensure we don’t attempt to modify animated images in the future. It will require an update to your Discourse instances to pick up the changes.