When the GUI editor is enabled there won’t be a ‘Insert image’ button below the post, you can use the image icon. This one:

image

Also, you can paste an image from your clipboard into the body field and it’ll be automatically uploaded and the markdown for the image inserted into the field.

      • suff@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I think, clipboard is still only because the browser only copies the current still

        • wjs018@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          I can copy/paste that gif out into my file browser and it stays animated just fine. The root cause is really the library that piefed is using to save all of its images when they are uploaded to the server (PIL is the name of the library for those that want to know). Basically, it doesn’t look past the first frame in an animated image when saving, so that is all that is saved to the server. The first gif you have there isn’t processed like that because it is being hosted elsewhere (tenor).

          I made some changes in the past that allow gifs to work in specific circumstances, but it is hacky and doesn’t address the root problem presented by PIL. It’s going to take some work to use a different image handling library for stuff like this, so gif support will be limited in the meantime.