If you are having issues embedding GIFs from giphy.com then it’s likely because the auto-embedding is again broke from some/many of the images from there. I’m going to re-post something that can help explain what to do if you want to post images from giphy or other places that are not correctly auto-embedding. I originally posted this in another thread that’s since been 404d so I can’t directly link to it now:
As for why embedding GIFs from giphy doesn’t work, I reported the issue in the Website Bug Report sub-forum about 2 months ago (4 months ago at this point) because the forum isn’t properly embedding some of the GIFs from giphy ever since giphy switched their URLs to their new much longer format (and started auto converting some links to webp format instead of actual GIFs).
If you have a GIF from giphy (or somewhere else) that does not embed properly, you can use the manual image markdown I mention in that post to pressure discourse to embed the image on the forum:
Example:
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Where | is the pipe symbol, usually above the enter key. You don’t need the optional alternate text description, but if you are going to supply an optional resolution you still have to provide the |:
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If you provide no optional parameters, it will post at the original size:
An additional note: because they changed the discourse image handling settings in regards to auto-scaling of images back when they updated a few things on the forum in April, now when you provide the “optional” resolution parameter, the forum will scale exactly to that resolution instead of ignoring the height like it used to and instead scaling the height based on the original image’s aspect-ratio.