User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Update: March 29, 2011/@comment-876022-20110329211030/@comment--20110329224109

Ryan, I am looking at the bug ticket now so I can assure it has been properly reviewed. Image serving and thumbnailing is a very tricky issue, but animated .GIFs in particular make up a very, very small percentage of thumbs and thus the priority of resolving this is much tinier than the other image server improvements and bug fixes our engineers work on every week.