Just confirming that I just noticed gifs set as backgrounds on itch profiles don't play anymore. They used to be animated, now they're static.
Uploading a new .gif does not fix the problem.
I have a partial solution:
Store your animated GIFs in a public GitHub repository and link the raw content URL in the HTML/Markdown with an <img> tag (HTML) or a ![]() (Markdown).
Here’s an example:
This works for GIFs in project page and devlog bodies, but it doesn’t work for banners or background images, since those have to be uploaded via the theme editor, and thus they rely on Itch.io to be animated and rendered correctly.
So, I tested and works with both gifs in the description and screenshots, my question is why? Using devtools you can see that the gif file was indeed uploaded, but it refuses to show it in the page, just the first frame instead. It's annoying, I'm starting to making assets to sell in the platform and I can't show properly my animations without the gifs working, I know itch's team is small, but this issue is taking too long to fix...
(Before you ask, I'm not a English native speaker :D)