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PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII

Started by Anna Mae Bollocks, April 12, 2013, 04:16:37 PM

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I think the issue is that FB automatically creates a thumbnail. It'll still link to the animated GIF, but it'll only display the non-animated thumbnail on FB's side.

IIRC, even the full size images are rehosted on a facebook domain.

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I see, that makes sense.

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Oh shit yes, this one.

Tactical nuke for facebook feed :lulz:

Facebook doesn't support GIFs though :(

Wat. FB shouldn't be able to do that.

What if you rename to .jpg, rehost it somewhere and post that on a feed?

Most browsers determine the actual filetype after download, so they will display the animation (just checked this with Chrome). I doubt FB checks more than the link's extension, instead of downloading and checking all the hotlinked images' data to see if they match up with their extension.

But I just checked, Imgur will give you a link with the proper extension, and Photobucket just refuses to accept images with the wrong extension. So you need to find some other hosting that'll allow you to do this. Dropbox can't tell you what to name your files, you can link to that (right-click, share link, go to that page, right-click the "direct download" menu option, and remove everything after the ? in the URL). Or just on a personal server.

I'd check if this works but I still refuse to get a FB acct.

Question is, how much trouble do you want to go through to post an animated GIF on FB? ;-)

Facebook converts all uploaded images into jpegs at something like 80% quality, and downscales them to a particular size if they are larger. If you post a link to an image, the thumbnail is created, which is also a jpeg and is also of a specified width.



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I'm extremely late to the memegenerator party but I just started messing around with it. I'm trying to find gentler ways to get points across on facebook.



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