Hey @akhil
. I commented on the issue you posted in the self-host repo. I think this might be an issue with your specific gif. I can get gif cover images working on both forem.dev and dev.to.
I did want to leave one other thought.
I know on dev.to we have had communities members report articles that have a gif as a cover image. This is because for people with vestibular disorders they are unable to view articles with continually playing gifs that they have no ability to stop the play on.
Something to consider when you are creating articles with moving cover images.
I am an Engineering Physics graduate from IIT Guwahati, but merely not restricted to Physics itself. In the past few years, I involved in many Cybersecurity blogging and now on Open-source.
I am an Engineering Physics graduate from IIT Guwahati, but merely not restricted to Physics itself. In the past few years, I involved in many Cybersecurity blogging and now on Open-source.
Hey @akhil . I commented on the issue you posted in the self-host repo. I think this might be an issue with your specific gif. I can get gif cover images working on both forem.dev and dev.to.
I did want to leave one other thought.
I know on dev.to we have had communities members report articles that have a gif as a cover image. This is because for people with vestibular disorders they are unable to view articles with continually playing gifs that they have no ability to stop the play on.
Something to consider when you are creating articles with moving cover images.
We have discussed this internally and in our forem repo.
You can see 2 open issues below:
Disable gif autoplay
Prefers-reduced-motion
Hey rather than inspecting GIF cover pic in draft, publish it => to see a broken cover pic.
Also, I will check with few other GIFs and update this comment accordingly.
In my few tests, I realised that the issue was not related to all GIFs and is specific to few GIF categories.