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Oh boy, a site that automatically does GIF->MP4 transcoding! One of the nice things about imgur, though, is that once you've uploaded an image it gives you a n

Oh boy, a site that automatically does GIF->MP4 transcoding! One of the nice things about imgur, though, is that once you've uploaded an image it gives you a nice handy preview page where you can do things like add a heading above the image or a caption below it, and gives you sample HTML and bbcode to copy and paste to embed the image on your own site. If you could do that, especially if the HTML code used <video> with the GIF in an <img> as fallback, I imagine that would be pretty sweet. I agree that redditors on the whole are pretty supportive of imgur, but a good part of that is because Imgur is very trusted: it got an initial burst of trust by being (a) from reddit and (b) better than the alternatives, and it's continued to repay that trust with interest in the intervening years. That's not to say that other sites can't or won't be better, just that (as I'm sure you've found) other sites will have an awfully steep hill to climb unless they're mind-blowingly better, or Imgur somehow shoots itself in the foot (by disabling hot-linking, or requiring Facebook authentication to upload images, etc.)

Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
We used to fallback to GIF in the <video> tag, but Chrome would completely load the GIF before it even started on the videos. Albums are coming in the somewhat near future, and you'll be able to caption them. Also, the developer docs [1] document the easy-to-use embedding tool for putting them in your own websites, but maybe we should make that more visible. [1] https://mediacru.sh/docs/ https://mediacru.sh/docs/
- thristian 13y ago
  Yeah, I have frequently uploaded screenshots to Imgur and copy/pasted the embedding sample to a web-forum or whatever, so it would be handy to have that in the human-reachable portion of the site, rather than only in the API. Also, I was talking about MediaCrush with a friend just now, and he pointed out that nowhere in MediaCrush's ToS does it mention anything about deleting images other than by legal pressure. Imgur says they'll delete images after three months without a hit; MediaCrush doesn't say that, but it doesn't not say it either.
  - jdiez17 13y ago
    We will not delete images unless the user does it or we are legally pressured to do it.
  - Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
    You can delete your own images, by the way, from the same computer you uploaded them from. We won't put media on a time bomb, though, it'll be there as long as MediaCrush is there.

Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago

We used to fallback to GIF in the <video> tag, but Chrome would completely load the GIF before it even started on the videos. Albums are coming in the somewhat near future, and you'll be able to caption them. Also, the developer docs [1] document the easy-to-use embedding tool for putting them in your own websites, but maybe we should make that more visible. [1] https://mediacru.sh/docs/ https://mediacru.sh/docs/

thristian 13y ago
Yeah, I have frequently uploaded screenshots to Imgur and copy/pasted the embedding sample to a web-forum or whatever, so it would be handy to have that in the human-reachable portion of the site, rather than only in the API. Also, I was talking about MediaCrush with a friend just now, and he pointed out that nowhere in MediaCrush's ToS does it mention anything about deleting images other than by legal pressure. Imgur says they'll delete images after three months without a hit; MediaCrush doesn't say that, but it doesn't not say it either.
- jdiez17 13y ago
  We will not delete images unless the user does it or we are legally pressured to do it.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y ago
  You can delete your own images, by the way, from the same computer you uploaded them from. We won't put media on a time bomb, though, it'll be there as long as MediaCrush is there.