The panels judge a GIF's length in whole milliseconds between the ends as sent, the server's own rule, and a refused length reads rounded up. A shared picture says it failed only once its retry failed too. Join's reason shows on a key's focus; the editor's failure toasts name GIFs. The edit route's cap is test-held, and DESIGN.md records the GIF UI.
A bare <img> sent a Referer that Google's image CDNs refuse and had no retry and no fallback, so a
Home shelf card showed the browser's broken-image mark. ui/RemoteImage gathers what Avatar, the
channel banner and the download rows had each hand-rolled: no Referer, up to three retries past the
browser's negative cache, the caller's fallback (by default the card's empty frame) instead of the
broken mark, the failure remembered by URL. Every picture now goes through it; a lint rule refuses
a bare <img>.
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