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Congrats to giphy I guess? But I'll be honest, any time I've ever used them as an extension in slack or anywhere, and tried to get relevant gifs, I got back som
by volkk 6y ago
Congrats to giphy I guess? But I'll be honest, any time I've ever used them as an extension in slack or anywhere, and tried to get relevant gifs, I got back some really bad results. I'll never fully understand why they're so successful short of just dominating the market through sheer popularity. I remember switching our team over to rightgif and the difference was astounding given the fact that giphy has millions upon millions and loads of developers.
- Jestar342 6y agoThat's what happens when Joe Public sets the tags. There's nothing "smart" about giphy's search, it's just a tag match.
- naravara 6y agoThey prioritized showing up on searches over really precisely tuned results. If you search for an animated gif on any image search GIPHY hits are the main ones. It's all about that SEO. And then they manage to make it hard to actually post the gif you found via the search engine, so you end up using the giphy platform to do it.
- karatestomp 6y agoLike Pinterest, I don't understand why they show up on image searches at all. They make it almost impossible to actually get at the image.
- roldie 6y agoThanks, never knew about rightgif. Their search is so good!
- txcwpalpha 6y agoI've always thought part of the "charm" of Giphy in Slack is that does give you those somewhat silly or "not exactly what I was looking for but actually this is funnier" type of GIFs. The couple of times I have tried to use it to search for a very specific GIF (like searching for a specific clip from a movie) it hasn't really worked, but whenever I use it for more general stuff like "/giphy cardio sucks" or "/giphy hooray" I get some pretty pleasing results.
- badwolf 6y agoThis is kind of the charm we like in our slack. We have preview turned off so you can't cycle through, you just get whichever one it picks. It can be amusing.
- yreg 6y agoI'd just like this trend of sending reaction gifs to end. <rant> People keep posting them in Slack all the time, but I find it about as appropriate as that brief time when all my uni teachers decided that it's hip to include rage comic faces into every other slide of every presentation. </rant>, yes I know, I'm fun at parties…
- anamexis 6y agoI don't mind the sentiment, but they're so visually distracting. /collapse is your friend here.
- ProAm 6y agoJust turn them off my default, its easier to uncollapse if you need to see something.
- redshirtrob 6y agoI hear ya. I had to disable animations on gifs and emojis. I keep Slack on a workspace in my peripheral vision. The animations trigger some reptilian fight or flight part of my brain that kills my focus. I got tired of collapsing them
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- jjoonathan 6y agoDo any of these services let you share your own gifs over slack? Last time I tried: dragging in gifs (or mp4s or webps) resulted in an attachment, not an inline gif, giphy wanted money to upload your own gifs, and gfycat had some kind of slow and inconsistent review process so that your gifs don't show up in search (or in the slack plugin) for weeks to months after you upload them.
- kennxfl 6y agoThis is the kind of the issue Facebook will help sort out. On the other hand, they will collect a lot of data about trending topics/searches in a bid to sell/suggest more trendy ads to advertisers.
- whalesalad 6y agoCouldn’t you just... drag the gif into Slack?
- 867-5309 6y ago> dragging in gifs ... resulted in an attachment
- lovegoblin 6y agoI've never had this problem, and I do it all the time. It embeds just fine.
- jjoonathan 6y agoNon-animated GIFs embed just fine, if that's what you mean. I just tried animated again, and sure enough, attachment.
- whalesalad 6y agoS3 bucket, FTP folder, imgur... for your custom gif's and then you can paste a URL and get animation. No frills.
- nojito 6y agoThey are very very quick at creating integrations with other services and as a result they were able to push their brand alongside the growth of gifs these past 5-8 years.
- wolco 6y agoThe growth of gifs? Did gifs ever leave critical mass?
- anbotero 6y agoFinally! THIS, rightgif, is exactly what at least 90% of people wanting to use. But another commenter on this very thread mentioned they pretty much just did SEO. Arrgh, hate it.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoSorry, I don’t see the other comment. Are saying giphy or rightgif did SEO? You hate which?
- anbotero 6y agoLook for “SEO” in this same thread, it’s the only other comment mentioning it. I hate giphy.
- sabertoothed 6y agoThe most ridiculous thing, I find, is that giphy on Slack prints your search term as well, so others can read it. That completely takes the fun out of the *.gif for me.
- EForEndeavour 6y agoFor me, seeing the original search term only increases the hilarity. It often leads to amusing juxtapositions between what the sender wanted to search and the gif they chose, or maybe they included an in-joke or excessively detailed description of something, etc.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoThat’s one of the main reasons I don’t use giphy on slack. I’m with you.
- black_puppydog 6y agoI was hyped when I read that there's a reasonable alternative with better search. Then I realized that they're exclusively on slack. Do gifs really only happen on slack for y'all? That's the place I encounter them the least, and I think that's a good thing. On the other hand, a ton of other places are more suitable for gifs, and (even) less suitable for using a facebook service, so this really hurts right now. Overall I'm quite sad to see how centralized freaking gif-sharing is, and that it's happenind mostly in walled gardens?!
- ronjouch 6y ago> "I realized that they're exclusively on slack" What do you mean? https://giphy.com/search/it-works https://giphy.com/search/it-works works for me.
- black_puppydog 6y agoI meant rightgif, which the parent mentioned as an alternative.
- sneeuwpopsneeuw 6y agoA friend of me added support for sending Giphy animations to a school project 2 years ago. He finished that in 2 or 3 hours. The API is basically give us 1 word and we give you givs / jif's / jivs / gif's idk. I atleast I understand why developers want to use it. For users it can be useless because they do not seam to understand multiple words and they do not have localized memes, so they for example don't understand dutch words and they don't have dutch memes.
- willart4food 6y agoYou need to lower your standards, lowering the bar is key to happines. 1/2 joking
- cannedslime 6y agoYeah I can never find the clip im looking for with Giphy, and if its even slightly controversial of edgy you can forget about it. I also turn gifs off on slack, its a waste of resources and the gifs are pretty lame anyways.
- Thuswindburn 6y agoIn my opinion, the big draw to Giphy is the massive volume of available gifs. Quantity over quality.
- nkcmr 6y ago> I'll never fully understand why they're so successful short of just dominating the market through sheer popularity. Sounds like a perfect match for Facebook :)
- ChuckMcM 6y agoMy theory on why they were successful is that they made it possible for "anyone" to quickly respond with a gif response. Responding that way had become "cool" but it was difficult or impossible for people who didn't hoard a stash of gifs. This sort of solution "Make it easy for the rest of us" is a tried and true winner of traction for products.
- chrisstanchak 6y agoGreat summary! A blog post condensed into a perfect comment.
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- jondubois 6y agoClearly this acquisition has nothing to do with either Facebook's or Giphy's businesses... Not sure you can even call Giphy a 'business' because that would imply that an attempt had been made at creating value.
- 83457 6y agoSeeing what comes back is half the fun. I have more respect for coworkers who /giphy instead of posting a gif link :)
- t-writescode 6y agoHave you changed the settings to pg-13 or lower? You can!
- robbyking 6y agoI had a recruiter from Giphy pursue me pretty hard, and all I could think was there's no way I'm going to go to a company that won't be around in a year.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoThat sucks. Don’t beat yourself up. If it was the right decision at the time, it still is the right decision.
- krat0sprakhar 6y agoRightgif looks great but sucks its not offered as an API and only as a slack bot
- wuliwong 6y agoI've had a 100% opposite experience. Compared to /gif, /giphy is far superior in slack.
- throwaway4715 6y agoAcquisition seems to make sense then. Facebook can fix search easily with their tech and Giphy already has the reach.
- rajacombinator 6y agoYep terrible product that made the internet worse. Wish Google bought them so we would know it will be shut down.
- respawnzero 6y agoI agree. Whenever I search Giphy, unless it's already an extremely popular Gif, I just get terrible results, completely irrelevant to the search term.
- softwarejosh 6y agothey are way too censored, I get that theyre embedded in everything so not much if a choice but just garbage results from them
- p49k 6y agoI would guess their success is due almost entirely to solving the licensing issues with the content, and doing so with such competence that major services want to work with them without fear of exposing themselves to liability.
- godelmachine 6y agoSecond this. The other day I wanted to send a pic of Naomi Scott from “Aladdin” to my colleagues, but I couldn’t get even a single decent one. There was just one in which she was turning around, but that was not even a second long, so no one would had figured out who she was anyways. Contrast this to Tenor on WhatsApp and the results are much more satisfying.