I don't think catbox.moe has the bandwidth lately.
It works, but it plays slowly (It took 90 seconds to download all 17.5 MB directly, which is longer than the gif lasts).
I've been playing around with animated WEBP files. These are much more efficient than gifs (the linked WEBP is about 330KB), but am having a hard time making them work for Lemmy.
Option 1: upload them directly to Lemmy, they get auto-recompressed and then often look like garbage
Option 2: direct-link to external host, Lemmy copies it in and auto-recompresses it with the same effect
Option 3: URL-link to an external host, which then people are reluctant to click
Option 4: Include as an inline link in the body of a post, then it looks like a text post, and support for it is variable among web clients and mobile apps
The canonical community is the one at feddit.nl, since it has all the history and I don't really think it's .nl's fault that someone used it to attack .world.
The bot's due to make one more post at endlesstalk (to announce that the problem is over) and then I'll think about what to do with the community (probably delete it)
I haven't watched either. I'm still watching Ahsoka, but I suspect that those who've watched everything are getting a lot more out of it than I am (still enjoy though, mostly)
I've found AD_edits on youtube to be helpful to watch after an episode - their recent videos re-edit some live-action with some animation to provide more context.
There's something to be said for the shared experience of watching something, not because you've individually chosen it, but because it's the thing that's on. A 5/10 movie becomes a 7/10 if you limit your options right down.
My favourite experience of watching a film on telly was for Audition (the Takashi Miike film), where, at the end of each ad break, the continuity announcer was advising, with increasing seriousness, that we should stop watching. I would've slept better if I'd listened.
No markdown inside spoiler tags will be likely be an issue for other posts too. (EDIT: found one)
As for Trending Communities I was mainly trying to use the tags to create an expandable section, like this:
But what Connect does (blocking all the text) isn't technically wrong, so it's understandable if you don't want to change it. Auto-TLDR bot often uses the tag for the same effect, but maybe we should both wait for a new, more appropriate Markdown feature, rather than (ab)using the one for spoilers.
One of my earliest memories is of playing with my Action Man and his jeep - at one point I picked up my sister's Barbie and plonked her in the passenger seat, thinking "this is fine, I'm not playing with dolls really". Anyway, then I stood up and cracked my head on the bottom of a cabinet door, hard enough to draw blood. As I stood there, screaming at the sight of blood on my hand, a rogue thought occurred: "This is what you get for playing with the wrong toys"
So, a sentence that little me could never have predicted: I'm borrowing a copy of the Barbie film from my Internet friend tonight, so that's my evening sorted.
I used to use hot water for a reaction to a certain laundry powder when I was a kid. Years later, I happened to mention it to a co-worker, and they said "Oh, why didn't you use antihistamines?", which I wish I'd known about much earlier (they certainly helped with the reactions to the mosquito bites)
I don't think catbox.moe has the bandwidth lately.
It works, but it plays slowly (It took 90 seconds to download all 17.5 MB directly, which is longer than the gif lasts).
I've been playing around with animated WEBP files. These are much more efficient than gifs (the linked WEBP is about 330KB), but am having a hard time making them work for Lemmy.
Option 1: upload them directly to Lemmy, they get auto-recompressed and then often look like garbage
Option 2: direct-link to external host, Lemmy copies it in and auto-recompresses it with the same effect
Option 3: URL-link to an external host, which then people are reluctant to click
Option 4: Include as an inline link in the body of a post, then it looks like a text post, and support for it is variable among web clients and mobile apps