# Very large gifs should be shown as previews

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-large-gifs-should-be-shown-as-previews/25423
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [19 februari 2015 om 20:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-large-gifs-should-be-shown-as-previews/25423 "2015-02-19T20:20:18Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [13 september 2017 om 03:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-large-gifs-should-be-shown-as-previews/25423/36 "2017-09-13T03:25:50Z")

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I believe this is now handled with @vinothkannans recent PR.

[http://img0.joyreactor.cc/pics/post/%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BA%D0%B8-superjail-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB-%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%8F-%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0-1886210.gif(image larger than 10 MB)](http://img0.joyreactor.cc/pics/post/%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BA%D0%B8-superjail-%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%82%D1%81%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB-%D0%A1%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%8F-%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%84%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0-1886210.gif)

The xxxxtra large Gif was (eventually, pending background tasks) replaced with image placeholder. @vinothkannans does the tooltip work now so I can mouse over this kind of random looking generic image placeholder and get a plain English explanation of what happened?

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