Am I the only one? If I’m identifying and one of the observations is moving it puts me on edge and I have to quickly go to the next page. If people want to add GIFs I would prefer them to be the 2nd photo, not the one that shows up in Identify. But perhaps I am the odd one out? And another thing - …

You’ve replied to spiphany 3 times, did you know you could send them a personal message instead? I got this message when I started to reply. I’m gonna take it as a hint and just agree to disagree. :)

The dumbest feature on my iPhone is the Live setting for photos. I didn’t even know it existed until I saw some of my photos “jump” when I opened them. Thankfully you can disable this feature on any individual photo when you’ve accidentally taken a pic in Live mode, but I’m not sure why it exists i…

Yes… it’s nice they allow it to be disabled in phones and browsers so that we don’t need to project our sensibilities onto each other.

I would prefer not to see GIFs. Liable to scroll past ASAP. Next ?

So many ways to disable it if that’s what they want to do.

@stockslager you’ve shared your perspective, I don’t think it’s helpful here to continue to repeat it.

Sorry, @stockslager but as someone who has created, faved and identified animated GIF images on iNat, I’m going to say that the edge-case arguments that you’re making in favor of why you need to use a GIF as the first image in an observation are far outweighed by the clearly articulated reasons why …

These points, although very thoughtful, do not adequately express my thoughts. I’ve been asked to stop presenting my thoughts on the topic, so I will.

I would agree that the discussion here didn’t seem like it was achieving much. But I was hoping that you might agree that sometime small personal conveniences are worth forgoing for the benefit of the broader community. It’s probably best to park the discussion as you indicate!

[image] rupertclayton: I’d like iNat to continue to support animated GIFs and maybe also (externally stored) video, but I really don’t need it to cause distress to other users. Also: as has been pointed out in previous discussions, GIFs are not officially supported on iNat and may at some poi…

GIF Observations Drive me Crazy

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bouteloua June 27, 2026, 12:24pm 58

The feature request topic for video is still open and the latest response there is:

Topic		Replies	Views
Allow users to choose whether gifs (or videos in future) should run automatically Feature Requests web	17	385	June 30, 2026
How to convert a video so it can be posted on iNat? General	19	2205	February 26, 2024
Upload videos Feature Requests web , android-app , under-review , mobile-app	42	8639	June 4, 2026
Observations without media should not allow IDs by other users Feature Requests	24	813	December 13, 2024
Observers Mocking Identifiers? General	52	4101	September 6, 2023

GIF Observations Drive me Crazy

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