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Wouldn't that require storing a separate, smaller version of the gif, or is there a trick for doing that more efficiently I'm not aware of?
As a togglable that could be fun.

>>22591
you could just render the gif and downscale it but that defeats the purpose of a thumbnail

>>22591
>>22592
i don't fucking know, but 420chan had it. i'm sure y'all stemlords can figure it out

I asked the mods for this feature 2 years ago and they didn't want it. One mod said making gifs autoplay is vulnerable to spam\raids

You can just make a simple script that replaces the thumbnail with the full animated image.

>>22591
That's what already happens with thumbnails

>>22608
This. Pretty sure it's available, but raids are bad enough without attention-seeking animation.

>>22609
I want to say someone did already… maybe check the /tech/ previous stickies.

Even crystal.cafe has this

Let's add sound support for thumbnails while we're at it

>>22608
>>22617
This.

>>22618
Also this but I can't find it. Could be the script for the person who had a broken (no, not outdated, actually broken) browser and couldn't display .webp thumbnails.

There is a plugin JS (client-side) option to disable animated .gifs if they are enabled. It might be worth considering enabling the server generating of .gif thumbnails and having that option available if they get abused, or if raids start happening as much as they used to, even enabled by default.