Display animated/gif avatar

[krille-chan]

Description

When a user has a GIF set as an avatar, there is no way in FluffyChat to view the animation.

It'd be great if the GIF was a still image by default, but when hovered over the avatar itself in any view, or hovering over a message from a user who has an animated avatar, it would play the animation.

To Reproduce

1. Set avatar to GIF (animated)
2. Hover over avatar in the UI and observe no animation

Additional information:

• Device: TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen6 Standard
• OS and OS version: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) x86_64
• Installed version of FluffyChat: https://fluffychat.im/web/

Other Implementations

In Element, animations do not play, but you can see the full animation by checking out the user's profile and click their avatar to get a focused view.

In Discord, I believe it follows the same logic that I described. So animating when hovering over the avatar in any location, or in the message view, when hovered over the message from a user with an animated avatar.

Motivation

From personal experience, there are a lot of users from Discord that know about or willing to consider Matrix. Outside the walled garden aspect, such users highly value things the features they're accustomed to paying for like global emotes or animated avatars. This is just to aim for feature parity, and to say that FluffyChat offers something for free that other platforms charge for the user to have the right to do.

Here is an issue for the same request in Element:
element-hq/element-web#5922

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 120 days with no activity.

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This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 14 days since being marked as stale.

[github-actions]

This issue is stale because it has been open for 120 days with no activity.