GIF thread

fade · Feb 10, 2017

This thread kills my browser on both mobile and desktop versions of Chrome. How are you guys dealing with it? I haven't even clicked on it in a while.

To be fair, it's not just this website.

Bubble181 · Feb 10, 2017

fade said:
This thread kills my browser on both mobile and desktop versions of Chrome. How are you guys dealing with it? I haven't even clicked on it in a while.

To be fair, it's not just this website.

Pray, hope, love.

Also, yes, pages with lots of gifs get torturous.

Dave · Feb 10, 2017

Should we lock it and start a new one? Or is it that the individual pages are causing issues?

Tinwhistler · Feb 10, 2017

it's laggy and slow to me, but it loads.

I was just thinking the other day that all GIF threads should have all the gifs behind spoiler tags to prevent the inevitable network constipation.

MindDetective · Feb 10, 2017

Tinwhistler said:
it's laggy and slow to me, but it loads.

I was just thinking the other day that all GIF threads should have all the gifs behind spoiler tags to prevent the inevitable network constipation.

I think an update a year or two ago makes all the spoilered material load anyways.

DarkAudit · Feb 10, 2017

Dave said:
Should we lock it and start a new one? Or is it that the individual pages are causing issues?

It's the individual pages, plus people quoting the gifs in replies. Once the NSFW gif thread ticked over to a new page, performance immediately improved.

Dave · Feb 10, 2017

I wonder if I can set that thread to be X pages instead of the default 35. Let me check.

PatrThom · Feb 10, 2017

Dave said:
I wonder if I can set that thread to be X pages instead of the default 35. Let me check.

Would probably be better to set it to X posts per page rather than limiting the number of pages.

--Patrick

Dave · Feb 10, 2017

Yeah that's what I meant. And I can't. I can set the number of posts per page for the whole board but not individual subs or threads. Let me see if there's anything else I could do.

PatrThom · Feb 10, 2017

Dave said:
Yeah that's what I meant. And I can't. I can set the number of posts per page for the whole board but not individual subs or threads. Let me see if there's anything else I could do.

Is there anything that converts a(n animated) gif into a jpeg or something for the quoted version? We have the ability to do preview/thumbnail, so it should at least be possible...

--Patrick

GasBandit · Feb 10, 2017

Yeah, I looked into changing the posts-per-page limit for that thread the last time we had this discussion. Couldn't find a way to do it.

But just recently, I do think we had a breakthrough when I discovered that quoting a gif/gifv/mp4 caused a massive resource drain (I am guessing because of the resizing and transparency/fading involved), so if people can avoid including the gifs and whatnot in their quote, it should help a lot.

Shakey · Feb 10, 2017

Is there a plugin that forces you to click on the gif to load it?

Tinwhistler · Feb 10, 2017

Shakey said:
Is there a plugin that forces you to click on the gif to load it?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animated-gifs/

Shakey · Feb 10, 2017

Tinwhistler said:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animated-gifs/

I meant more for the forum itself.

GasBandit · Feb 10, 2017

Shakey said:
I meant more for the forum itself.

Nope. The only reason GIFVs and MP4s and WEBMs work at all on the forum is already because of a plugin. And believe me, they hamper system performance waaaay less than actual vanilla GIFs.