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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by lovegoblin on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:58PM (#23194420)
I've never had this problem, and I do it all the time. It embeds just fine.
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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by jjoonathan on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:09PM (#23194577)
Non-animated GIFs embed just fine, if that's what you mean. I just tried animated again, and sure enough, attachment.
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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by whalesalad on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:09PM (#23195358)
S3 bucket, FTP folder, imgur... for your custom gif's and then you can paste a URL and get animation. No frills.
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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by jjoonathan on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:42PM (#23197154)
If I paste a URL, I get a URL, not an embedded image. Then people have to click it to see the gif, and they don't, so it defeats the purpose.
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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by whalesalad on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:34PM (#23198304)
That is a preference you disabled. By default URLs are expanded inline.
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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by prophetjohn on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:15PM (#23195435)
Copy and paste it into slack instead
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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by jjoonathan on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:44PM (#23197177)
Uhh.... that creates an attachment.

I'm begging to suspect that there's a setting, hidden size threshold, or something involved.

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by RandallBrown on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:09PM (#23197446)
Could be a setting in your organization or something I guess. Uploading a gif works fine for me and it's animated.
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