Did this ever see the light of day? I see
- a plugin from 4 years ago: discourse-gif-to-mp4/plugin.rb at master · nbianca/discourse-gif-to-mp4 · GitHub
- a few topics for example: Discourse Gifs component - #175 by Zup
But neither of these make clear if the solution was implemented.
The reason I ask is that, unless I am mistaken, lightboxing does not appear compatible for gifs. By this I mean, I cannot click a gif and go fullscreen. When the gif contains detailed text, the user cannot zoom in without opening the image in another tab.
However, if the gif converts to an mp4 when uploaded, then we benefit from the fullscreen functionality of the existing video player, as well as the time bar – massive benefits when you are watching a short tutorial clip!
Is this conversion possibility already avaiable? I searched also “gif” in the settings and found
