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They are not supposed to really know, it’s just very unusual for GIF to be used in the modern times for something that is not animated. I could technically check for that and act accordingly, but you are the first to point this out in 2 years, so thank you! 🫂🫡
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The Daniel 🖖 9mo ago

GIFs were often used for bitmap images with a limited color palette prior to PNGs and I’m sure there are many people that still use them.

This image is fairly old (apparently from 2007) and created by some type of data visualization software.

It came from here:

https://www.visualizingeconomics.com/blog/2007/09/22/new-york-city-poverty-map

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 9mo ago

I’ll patch this up, since the intention was not to optimize static GIFs as animations if they are not. Apparently a bug in my code somewhere 😅😭

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The Daniel 🖖 9mo ago

Look at me, the accidental bug sleuth. 🪲🔍

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Ryan 9mo ago

On Nostr you're half user, half tester 💯

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The Daniel 🖖 9mo ago

Always has been!

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 9mo ago

Ok, Mr. SuperDuperTester! Fixed now, but the old GIF that you uploaded will be deduped for the free upload (which was used) so any new hashes of static GIFs will be fine now 😂🫡🫂🚀

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The Daniel 🖖 9mo ago

I usually upload things like that into the free uploader because they’re one-offs that I don’t expect to use again. Helps to not clutter up my gallery.

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The Fishcake (nostr.build) 9mo ago

Me too! Do this to memes mainly 😂

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Ryan 9mo ago

That's definitely old. The map link requires Flash player. It's just an old website that's never been updated. Even for animations GIF is deprecated, any modern site will use MP4 or webp. Weird edge case.

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The Daniel 🖖 9mo ago

Flash was so hot back in 2007!

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Ryan 9mo ago

I miss the cool games 😭