• Mr.Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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    9 months ago

    Not too sure, the one in this comment did not load for me. I should note that im on Boost for lemmy and just take them directly from my galarie, so Boost uploads these that way, not sure if there is another way though. Before it worked just fine, but on that day all the things I uploaded kinda janked

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      9 months ago

      Boost probably inherited the habit of reddit apps to use imgur as an image host, then. Most apps upload to the pict-rs server provided by the lemmy instance, not imgur.

      Does boost have support for animated webps? Edit: tested it, it does load, but does mot animate.

      The gifv is an imgur thing (they convert gifs to mp4 files), but you can edit the post and just change the .gifv to .mp4, that will at least make the video work in some clients.

      Stills should work just fine, as long as boost is using the direct file link after upload.

      Video support on lemmy is a little tricky atm, depends on the client, but gifs and webp both work, as long they are direct links to actual such files. Which you can’t do with gifs on imgur, as they turn them into video files.