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Rockwell uses the twitter authentication workflow to render a twitter like feed in order to collect information about the users interaction with their feed. It also has an attention check feature to ensure that the user is being observant of their feeds and not simply scrolling through with the intent of finishing quickly.
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GIFs not loading properly #218

Open glciampaglia opened 10 months ago

glciampaglia commented 10 months ago

Tweets with GIFs like this one are not loading properly on Rockwell. Instead of showing the GIF animation, we get a blank image:

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glciampaglia commented 10 months ago

We looked at the tweet. It is labeled as a "GIF", however the animation is actually done using a video file (.MP4 format). So we should not display this tweet until we have video playback implemented (#200).

The immediate problem is that Rockwell sees it as an image tweet because of the preview thumbnail, which is all white for this particular animation. This means that currently we are likely displaying a lot of these "video" tweets as regular image tweets. If we decide to filter them out, we may end up removing a significant chunk of content from the feed.

We should discuss this with the rest of team if this a good idea or not.