• zewm
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    13 months ago

    On windows they are clear…

    • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      That means they blurred them for your viewing pleasure. They’re still 256 color animations where the format was invented in 1989.

      Edit: The process GIF uses to store semi-video quality is called error diffusion. Look it up. 256 color palette is rather limited.

      • zewm
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        13 months ago

        I’m not going to keep going back and forth about it. The fidelity of gifs on windows and Linux clients of discord differ greatly.