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Support GIFs in commits #1255
Description
Problem
There's no way to share a GIF on /dev/null today. Reaction GIFs are part of how devs communicate (the "it works on my machine" shrug, the deploy-on-Friday fire, the cat typing furiously...), and right now commits and replies can only carry static images. Threads lose a lot of their humor and expressiveness.
Proposal
- Allow .gif uploads (and ideally animated WebP) in the image attachment picker, with a reasonable size cap
- Optionally, a GIF picker in the composer backed by Tenor or GIPHY search
- Autoplay muted in the feed, with a pause-on-hover/tap option and respect for prefers-reduced-motion for accessibility
- Show a small "GIF" badge on the media preview
Happy to help test it. Thanks for building /dev/null! 🙏
Environment
| Browser | Chrome 155.0.0.0 |
| Os | macOS |
| Viewport | 1710x931 |
| Pixel ratio | 2 |
| Language | en-US |
| Color scheme | light |
| Page | /log/trending |
Reacted by Pauline Vos, Mauro Reis Vieira and Oscar Arzola
Activity
arzola commentedon Nov 4, 2026
I got you covered :)
#367
jubianchi commentedon Nov 6, 2026
@lucydjo, #794 ("Giphy integration") covers the same request, so it may be the place to continue the discussion, and this one could then be closed as a duplicate (as #1054 was).
Three open PRs take it from different sides:
.giflinks shown inline in link previews, no key needed.gifuploads (no external links) #1184:.gifuploads kept animatedSome context on uploads: they were turned off on purpose in #336, because every image is re-encoded as a single-frame WebP, so an animated GIF ended up as a still of its first frame. On #891, an earlier GIF PR, nunomaduro asked to first confirm on the app that people want GIFs, and to go step by step.