APNG support

Andy29485

The desktop client itself seems to support apngs. However, the server resizes images before embedding -- leaving only the first frame as the embedded image (instead of an animation).

To clarify, I'm not asking for apng emojis or avatars, just embedded images.

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  • NunoBessa

    Aight I'm unfollowing this issue and I move to Guilded, they have apng support Im out of discord, too slow dev

    Guilded you say? Looks awesome!

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  • Auracle
    • Edited

    Guilded is far from perfect, its still WIP but for now its free and they innovate

    Out of all recommendations I made for discord only 1 got into the finished product, the devs are way too slow

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  • Seikikai

    Now We Have APNGs In Form Of Stickers That Are Limited To 500 kb...What A Shit Job Discord Devs...

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  • CyberneticSusurrus

    Absolutely shameful lack of action and response from devs on this.

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  • NiSSeS

    Guilded does not support APNG avatars. Not even animated GIF avatars... Tested using Windows client on 2021-08-12.

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  • Auracle

    Not my point, the point is discord devs don't even respond to this feedback thread that EVERYONE IS LISTENING TO

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  • NiSSeS
    • Edited

    Well... there is some kind of response here: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/jby5lo/why_are_stickers_apngs_meanwhile_we_still_cant/g8yr7i8

    When you upload APNG avatar it is animated in preview mode but as soon as you crop it and accept it then it behaves like still frame. I don't really accept the performance argument because avatars could be animated only when focused or in profile view. Maybe it will change - who knows.

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  • Auracle

    If APNGs aren't supported by android
    THEN WE MUST BULLY ANDROID
    Send me links where you successfully bullied android so I can bully too

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  • NiSSeS

    If something is not supported natively then you code it by yourself. It's not a big deal - it's just pictures in a series. They didn't add animated APNG avatars because they wanted to sustain smooth experience on low performance devices.

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  • commandblockguy

    I've created a pull request to lilliput (Discord's image resizer and the component that currently strips frames from animated PNGs) that adds support for APNG files.

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