# Optimized / Resized GIFs lose all animation, become still frames

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimized-resized-gifs-lose-all-animation-become-still-frames/19714
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [9월 6, 2014, 7:17오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimized-resized-gifs-lose-all-animation-become-still-frames/19714 "2014-09-06T07:17:36Z")
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### Author: ![lidel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lidel/32/115991_2.png) [@lidel](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lidel)
#### Post date: [9월 6, 2014, 10:54오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/optimized-resized-gifs-lose-all-animation-become-still-frames/19714/4 "2014-09-06T10:54:54Z")

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@fysics If you have a community with high use of gifs this may be a better way to go (for both speed and storage space required):

> [@Should Discourse convert GIFs to mp4 video files?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-convert-gifs-to-mp4-video-files/16739):
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> Just read about this neat trick that Twitter is doing with GIFs: [http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-telling-you-about-gifs](http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-telling-you-about-gifs) Perhaps this is something Discourse would like to mimic in the future. And for the watercooler: If a video format does everything GIF does and more, and with better compression, are the days of the GIF numbered?

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