Why does this sub consistently have the biggest, slowest-loading gifs?
Posted Feb 12, 2016, 9:58 AM UTC
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Because we like them to be high quality. Really they arent bad if you have a decent internet connection. Though obviously not everyone can even get a good internet connection =/
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Sites like gfycat and imgur also tend to use webm for desktops, which load much faster than actual GIFs. Mobile browsers seem to get the actual GIF which I can understand being horribly slow to load if it's screen sized.
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Yeah, if you are using reddit is fun on android you get the webm version, dont know about any other app though.
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While not many people know about it, it's pretty easy to make small high-quality GIFs. I remember reading a guide about it on this very subreddit some months ago.
When trying it out, I turned a 350MB video into a 15MB one without any loss of quality. Hopefully more people start doing this, but that's probably wishful thinking.
Link to tutorial