Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25968376-20150717165013

I have to raise my opinion on this as it slightly worries me. First of all, animations without sound don't add much as they're low resolution, low fps and the cookies can better be seen in the normal pics or sprite sheet. But my main concern is that gif is a horrible format to store something that basically is a video. Remember that many users come from mobile devices, and a 2-3 MB gif will not only slow down the loading of the site but also kill our amount of free data/month.

If we absolutely need to have animations, I suggest we move over to the .gifv/webm format (see for example ) as it allows better compression. Those load instantly and with higher fps for higher resolutions. We can embed some "play" button functionality like Facebook does to prevent accidental killing of mobile data, although I'm not sure if the Wikia platform has support for this. Alternatively we could just add Youtube videos and get sound as well. What do you guys think? 