You need to use ImageMagick to process uploaded images.
GD 2, which is default on most servers does not support GIF's

Hello Sam,

Currently gif images aren't supported as we currently rely on GD as Darko mentioned. Once Imagemagick support is added, we might support gif in the future

Thanks Mark and Darko Imagemagick is installed and working well on our server with other extensions and also Easyblog.
Personally I think it a necessary requirement. In accordance to all our marketing surveys videos, images and gif's are at the top of the list of items that people want to share.
Generally speaking some extension use the approach of not processing a gif upload and therefore the thumbnail production is bypassed the original image is used instead. This would be an easy way to give the required support.
By the way animated gif's that are published in Easyblog or K2 do remain animated in the Easysocial stream.

Best
Regards.

Currently EasySocial does not support Imagemagick yet unfortunately but it will in the near future

ok thank you

You are most welcome Sam

I am also in need of this feature. Animated gifs are a must for my implementation.

From a performance and usability point of view, consider a static image for thumbnail that will swap to animated on hover, click or page scroll.
Otherwise you'll load huge animations and slow down your site.

Hello Ryan,

Thanks for the information.

Hi Azkar,

I'm sorry but it is not possible currently.

Actually i made it working using the image bbcode

image bbcode does not perform any resizing at all. All it does, is just use the url to the image