Can't upload animated gifs? (Solved)

[BrokenPromise]

I've started using RPG's image host because...There aren't a whole lot of reliable options.

It works great, but I've noticed that I can't upload animated banners with a .gif extension, even though non-animated gif files work. The files are under the 2 MB limit, so I know that isn't the issue.

Is there something I'm missing?

[LegendBegins]

It may be converting the non-animated gifs on the backend into a static file format like JPG. Have you gotten any animated image files to work on RPG's image host?

[BrokenPromise]

Nope! Just started trying it today. I would like to clarify that the images aren't turning into static ones, it's just outright refusing to upload them and throws up an "unsupported file type" error.

[LegendBegins]

Nope! Just started trying it today. I would like to clarify that the images aren't turning into static ones, it's just outright refusing to upload them and throws up an "unsupported file type" error.

@BrokenPromise

Yeah, sounds to me like it's not happy with non-static images. Maybe a future improvement to the image system.

[BrokenPromise]

@LegendBegins A'ight. Thanks for letting me know.

[Light the Dark]

Not to jump into your thread, @BrokenPromise, but I have more info that might be useful to you @LegendBegins.

I was able to upload gifs, though when I checked just now I could no longer do so. I even tried to upload a gif that I've previously uploaded, and it isn't uploading. I thought it might be because some images are now WEBP images (even when the file extension says .gif,) but it wasn't just them.

I don't know if this is actually useful or not, but I know uploading gifs used to be something we could do.

[LegendBegins]

@Light the Dark

This is interesting. I grabbed a true gif file with a GIF89a file header, and that wasn't accepted either. While I'd love to blame Google and their trash .webp format here, this seems to be an issue with any animated file.

Interestingly though, animated PNGs work just fine. See roleplayerguild.com/users/legendbegin….

The above could be a workaround for your case @BrokenPromise. You can do the conversion at ezgif.com/apng-maker.

[BrokenPromise]

@Light the Dark@LegendBegins This indeed will work for my purposes. And it seems like APNG is a much smaller file size than GIF, so it's a win all around.

I guess this is solved unless APNG format breaks down the road. Thanks guys!