Animated gif images on Hubpages?

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   alikhan3posted 10 years ago

   Has anyone experimented with using animated gif images on their hubs? if so was the Hubpages sight able to display them seamlessly?

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      calculus-geometryposted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Any animated gif you upload will be converted to a static image in jpg format.  Try to find/make a video instead.

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         alikhan3posted 10 years agoin reply to this

         So this isn't worth then videos take a bit long to lo user has to click play button to start them. Animated gifs have the advantage of playing without any click

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            calculus-geometryposted 10 years agoin reply to this

            Readers don't like videos that play automatically.  It is really very annoying to open a page and immediately have something with sound playing.  The problem with allowing animated gifs in hubs is that people would load their hubs with stuff like this
            
            
            
            It's the same reason why HP doesn't allow text colors or more html options.  Some people have no sense of moderation, so we have to limit the options for everyone.

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      alikhan3posted 10 years agoin reply to this

      Oh boy I didn't meant that sort of gifs ..... all I wanted to use were animated gifs to demonstrate certain steps with more clarity in tutorials where you could follow a cursor executing some button or stuff like that.
      These type of gifs should be permitted.

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   NateB11posted 10 years ago

   Someone suggested some time ago that we have gifs here at HP and I didn't like the idea back then because it can make articles look a little silly if used the wrong way. Then I started seeing very good articles on the Net that made use of gifs in an effective way like this one for instance http://io9.com/this-animated-data-visua … socialflow
   
   But I agree with calculus, most people are not going to use gifs in an effective way.

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