Greetings, Scratchers!

Recently I have noticed animated thumbnails on various projects throughout the site.
How does one apply animated thumbnails?
When were they implemented?
I have so many questions…

see this http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/36686292/

Just going to throw a bit of a warning out there: using an animated thumbnail can result in your project being marked as NFE because animated project thumbnails can make the front page laggy.

cheddargirl wrote:

Just going to throw a bit of a warning out there: using an animated thumbnail can result in your project being marked as NFE because animated project thumbnails can make the front page laggy.

wait, the ST actually (mis)uses “Not For Everyone” like that? That's like labeling 2% milk as skim milk.

Zro716 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Just going to throw a bit of a warning out there: using an animated thumbnail can result in your project being marked as NFE because animated project thumbnails can make the front page laggy.

wait, the ST actually (mis)uses “Not For Everyone” like that? That's like labeling 2% milk as skim milk.

At least it's used for a good purpose. GIFs can send the CPU usage sky high.

Sonickyle wrote:

Zro716 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Just going to throw a bit of a warning out there: using an animated thumbnail can result in your project being marked as NFE because animated project thumbnails can make the front page laggy.

wait, the ST actually (mis)uses “Not For Everyone” like that? That's like labeling 2% milk as skim milk.

At least it's used for a good purpose. GIFs can send the CPU usage sky high.

^Yep, summarizes my previous post nicely. We don't want a laggy front page.

cheddargirl wrote:

Sonickyle wrote:

Zro716 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Just going to throw a bit of a warning out there: using an animated thumbnail can result in your project being marked as NFE because animated project thumbnails can make the front page laggy.

wait, the ST actually (mis)uses “Not For Everyone” like that? That's like labeling 2% milk as skim milk.

At least it's used for a good purpose. GIFs can send the CPU usage sky high.

^Yep, summarizes my previous post nicely. We don't want a laggy front page.

If that's true, why can studios with animated thumbnails be on the front page?

JeeJeeHogMole724 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Sonickyle wrote:

Zro716 wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

Just going to throw a bit of a warning out there: using an animated thumbnail can result in your project being marked as NFE because animated project thumbnails can make the front page laggy.

wait, the ST actually (mis)uses “Not For Everyone” like that? That's like labeling 2% milk as skim milk.

At least it's used for a good purpose. GIFs can send the CPU usage sky high.

^Yep, summarizes my previous post nicely. We don't want a laggy front page.

If that's true, why can studios with animated thumbnails be on the front page?

there are exactly 5 studios on the front page.There are 40 projects

Hmmm… But ST member @[Removed - please don't gossip and that user is not an ST member] used to use animated thumbnails a lot.

My concern is that the ability to make animated thumbnails is very likely a bug.

3sal2 wrote:

My concern is that the ability to make animated thumbnails is very likely a bug.

Nope, it's a hack >
jk but don't necropost

IronBit_Studios wrote:

3sal2 wrote:

My concern is that the ability to make animated thumbnails is very likely a bug.

Nope, it's a hack >
jk but don't necropost

It actually is a bug, which is partially why we were NFE'ing projects that had it. We wouldn't deliberately implement something that would make the site unusable for our users with weaker computers. If you exploited the bug to get an animated thumbnail, well… be glad we only NFE'd it.

Anyway, closing this since the question is quite old and I think resolved. How to do this isn't information we want to spread around anyway.