User blog comment:Kelis98/We need larger upload sizes/@comment-28542427-20190612095322

Good idea, but... I'm afraid it'll be difficult to do it, if not outright impossible. I've found this thread: https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1556628 on community Fandom, and the official answer from Fandom staff was, to quote: "FANDOM does not offer to change the file size limit as changing it for one wiki would require us changing our network-wide PHP.ini configuration, not just a simple wiki variable.". This is an answer that's half a year old, so I doubt much has changed when it comes to that.

Either they actually have not prepared for such situations OR, hypothetically, the change is possible (even if difficult), but only for hmm.. selected/special cases (just in theory, tho). But if the above quote is 1:1 true, they would actually need to address a lot more than a single thing to introduce a possibility of a change. We could contact them about it, logically the more people ask, the greater the chance is (even if I'm not an optimist when it comes to this happening).

Coming back to what we CAN do nowadays... several options. Either (1) exactly what you're doing, i.e. compressing (or in worst case, reducing the quality) of the .gif's (using e.g. https://ezgif.com/optimize) - or - (2) uploading them as videos to any outside service (like YT) - or - (3) uploading them to an outside image service like imgur or similar. These options spring to mind instantly, however (2) would probably involve clicking to activate the video (won't autoplay) and (3) - clicking on the referral link to be redirected to the outside service... that is, UNLESS the image from an outer source can actually be embedded and displayed! (I'm not sure about it, because I haven't used outside sources that much, and even if so, these were only links, not images/videos/etc.).

Also, I'm not sure if it's a bug or not, but I can't display the last animated image you've uploaded (the biggest one, 9,99 MB exactly : o) for some reason. Only the miniature shows in the "New Files" section and it's not animated. I'll try later, maybe this is a temporary problem.

Perhaps others could also chime in and suggest other any other solutions. Hopefully we'll find something that will be good for us : )