Animated GIFs are now Click to Play :point:
Update your thread, once again, Rayvolution! 8) :-*
Saw it and started to look for this post.
There it is! 
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…I do like the change though! Very handy, we can now post huge gifs if we want and not worry about our own server’s bandwidth usage and give disclaimer warnings if they’re insanely-huge gifs in double-digit meg ranges.
… or be smart and cool and stuff and upload to gfycat if your GIFs are massive.
yeah, I know… I just never liked using cloud/media providers. I love my little server /junk/ folder. 
Then host the webm yourself! I know of at least one html5 player: http://www.videojs.com/ Would cut your bandwidth usage greatly over hosting GIFs.
Don’t ask me how to encode them though.
One day, I’ll add functionality that plows through messages, follows newly found images, gathers stats, conditionally displays said images, using thresholds based on device type, measured bandwidth in the current session and user preferences per device. RLY!
And it will serve you breakfast! The future :D