What is GIFV? – Imgur

so I heard we can upload bigger gifs now?

GIFVs have the high quality of a video mixed with the simple functionality of a GIF. This means they

load quickly
loop forever
and have no sound--just like a GIF!
All GIFs over 2MB will be converted to GIFV on upload. You can upload GIFs up to 200MB.

The converted videos are significantly smaller than their equivalent GIFs, which allows them to load at lightning-fast speeds with better quality. Like all GIFs, there is no sound. By lowering bandwidth consumption, the change also optimizes Imgur for users on mobile. Rejoice!

Beyond performance increases, the core experience will not change GIFV implements video in a way that looks and behaves exactly like a GIF.

GIFV also introduces three major upgrades to the GIF experience on Imgur:

Massively Increased Upload Limits

With the efficiencies introduced by MP4, Imgur is increasing its traditional GIF upload limit of 5MB by an order of magnitude to 200MB. This opens the door to massive improvements in quality

Optimized for Social Channels

Uploads to Imgur will now fully animate on channels like Twitter and Facebook, allowing for the sharing of the full GIF experience throughout the social web.

The .GIFV Extension

With all these improvements, Imgur will now denote converted videos with a ".gifv" extension. The intention is to signal to users throughout the Internet that these links will feature a GIF experience that incorporates all the current and future enhancements made through Project GIFV.

We hope these changes deliver an improved GIF experience on Imgur with more fun and less frustration, optimizing it for all of the changes that have happened on the Internet since the format was first introduced in 1987.