# 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:** [2015 年 2 月 19 日午後 8:20 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:** [2015 年 2 月 20 日午前 1:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/very-large-gifs-should-be-shown-as-previews/25423/8 "2015-02-20T01:55:52Z")

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Well yeah, the posting of

# THIRTY

# ONE

# MEGABYTE

gifs should _probably_ be frowned upon. Here’s the video version that imgur created automagically for me at [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://imgur.com/uelnPvv)

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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