I swear I'm going to literally hack this site just to fix the fucking thumbnail bug it's driving me insane.

When you upload an image or a gif or whatever, you're given an option to upload a thumbnail. Perfect. I upload 'Friendly Relaxation' which has a cut in. All good and dandy, since it helps the animation loop better. Since the first frame is a white square, I decide "hmm this isn't very interesting, let me grab a frame to use a thumbnail." So I do, I get myself a nice neat frame to use as the thumbnail, and upload it alongside the gif.

Except, the animation is posted with the white square thumbnail.

"Okay what the fuck" I think, maybe it's just the format, since I pulled the frame out as a gif, just happened to be easier that way. That shouldn't be an issue, but this site is basically running on broken dreams and chewed up bubblegum. It could be an edge case, that's fine, since I can just go to the submission, and click "Update Thumbnail".

So I go and grab a frame as a PNG this time, shouldn't be any issues there right? Well so I thought, until I uploaded the new thumbnail and literally nothing fucking happened. Now I'm starting to get pissed.

So, I decide, "Well fuck it, I'll cut out the start of the animation, it'll loop worse, but the best quality is on twitter anyway and it doesn't cut away any of the action." So I cut the animation up, update the source file to the new gif file. However as I'm going through this process, I notice a little box "Rebuild the thumbnail from this file", which gives me another idea on how I could fix the issue. So I upload the cut animation with the little box checked, and get a new thumbnail, not great, but better than just a white screen.

Now on to where I think I'm about to be a fucking genius! I go back to update the source file, uncheck the "Rebuild the thumbnail" box, and give it the uncut animation with the fancy cut in. Since I unchecked the box, the thumbnail should be left untouched and still have the fancy pantsy thumbnail from before. Fucking sike apparently, jokes on me, that box doesn't fucking do anything. Thumbnail is back to being a white box.

So I give up, have a cut animation.

I love this site. :)

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