XF 2.1 Pasting an animated gif turns it static

[nathanmiller]

I can reproduce this here, simply by pasting into this box:


Source: https://media2.giphy.com/media/WUq1cg9K7uzHa/giphy.gif

However, a 1.5.11 site I've visited has no issue keeping the image as a gif (and actually, doesn't show the attachment gallery at all, which is also nice). How can this be fixed?

Thanks!

 

[nathanmiller]

Bump: can anyone help here? This is a real frustration.

Thanks!

 

[Mendalla]

Was the gif on the 1.5.11 site pasted or was it a link back to the gif's original location. That might make a difference.

 

[sbj]

I think gifs are disabled here on XF, that is why it is not working.

Your link works for me.

You need imagick installed on your server to have gifs working, if I am not mistaken.

 

[nathanmiller]

The gif was pasted on 1.5.11, not linked back.

We have imagick installed and use it as the default, so I don't think that's the culprit.

@sbj do you have a site where I can try the same thing to see if it is in fact possible? I have been unable to get a gif to paste on any 2.1 forum I've tried. Would love to see one that works.

 

[sbj]

Ah, pasted as in right click and copied the graphic?
Yeah, that doesn't work for me too. I thought you were talking about copy/paste of the link.

 

[Mendalla]

Okay tried with that gif and my own site. It appears that when I copy the gif, only the frame showing when I hit copy image gets pasted, not the whole gif. That's likely what causes the problem. Not sure if that's a Xenforo thing or the nature of animated gifs and clipboards.

 

[nathanmiller]

@sbj @Mendalla cool cool so we're on the same page.

So here's the thing: it works fine in Xenforo 1.5.11, so I'm thinking it must be something specific to XF 2.

 

[Paul B]

I have responded to your ticket.

To retain frames and animation, gif files must be attached.



Edit: To clarify, it's a limitation of the editor used for XF2.

 

[SpecialK]

Are there any plans to update the editor so that pasted gifs will be animated?

I don't miss them, but some users might...

 

[DCMS]

hi guise,
we have a problem with gif as avatar,
To clarify, we have installed imagemagik, and all the stuff in background, enabel it in Xenforo admin cp.
but the avatar of the users that uses animated gif, are alla stuck to first frame.

 

[colcar]

I have responded to your ticket.

To retain frames and animation, gif files must be attached.

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Edit: To clarify, it's a limitation of the editor used for XF2.

Why though? Why has another great feature of XF1 been removed for XF2? All I've done since upgrading is discover one feature after another missing from this forum software, and there isn't even an addon to fix it.

The people on my forum loved the simplicity of copying a gif and pasting it on the forum, now I've got to try to train them to download a gif and then reupload it to the forum? Why? It was working just fine, why make it worse?

This is the opposite of progress, we're going backwards