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The commit is great. I love that the comments have spiraled completely out of control. At this point, 30 minutes after the link was posted, the comment thread i
by benihana 12y ago
The commit is great. I love that the comments have spiraled completely out of control. At this point, 30 minutes after the link was posted, the comment thread is now a competition to see who can post the best gif.
I know we're serious here, but stuff like this reminds me why I love the internet so much. It's fun to cut loose once in a while.
- bshimmin 12y agoAgreed. It's such a shame that HackerNews doesn't let you post animated GIFs - I think it'd really add a lot of value to the discussions here.
- edw519 12y ago\/\/\/\/ / \ / \ / \ /\_/ 0 0 \_/\ | | \/ \ |_| / \/ \ / \ \-----/ / \ / \_______/ | | Agreed. (MVP)
- krapp 12y agoTechnically, it will let you post them as links, it just won't upload and embed them. But a plugin or a userscript would fix that, provided they're posted somewhere with an easy to deal with API like imgur.
- Omniusaspirer 12y agoI'm hoping this is sarcasm since I don't think I've seen a single intelligent discussion in my life that was helped along by a funny GIF. Not to say there's anything wrong with funny GIF's, but I come to HN exactly because it moderates away that sort of stuff.
- bshimmin 12y agoIt was sarcasm. Sorry I forgot the <sarcasm> tags - I'll be more careful in future.
- mring33621 12y agoYou forgot them again.
- mikeash 12y agoIf only you could post animated GIFs, then you could have added one that indicated sarcasm.
- hafichuk 12y agoYou forgot your closing tag :)
- digi_owl 12y agoThere is a reason why i have a extension installed in Firefox just for the ability to say when a gif is to play.
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]
- arenaninja 12y agoI think it's great too, but I shudder to think what it might look like 5 years from now. I can only figure that there will be dead gifs everywhere
- SuperKlaus 12y agoLooks like github hosts most/all of them so should be ok.
- pilif 12y agoeverything that's hosted from 'camo.githubusercontent.com' is just proxied and will go away as the source goes away.
- benihana 12y agoI think most of those gifs are hosted on github. I tried to post a linked image, and it only showed the hyperlink. When I uploaded the image to github, it showed up inline.
- jmhobbs 12y agoGithub proxies the images in comments: https://github.com/blog/743-sidejack-prevention-phase-3-ssl-proxied-assets https://github.com/blog/743-sidejack-prevention-phase-3-ssl-... Here's the code behind it: https://github.com/atmos/camo https://github.com/atmos/camo
- Seldaek 12y agoThat's what I figured as well, and since https://twitter.com/seldaek/status/539773104835555329 https://twitter.com/seldaek/status/539773104835555329 the rate of comments went nuts :) I really felt bad seeing how we missed that improvement for so long, so turning it all in a gif-fest is more productive than self-deprecation!
- alvarosm 12y agoit's completely retarded and shameful
- Treasdex 12y agoYou must be a pedophile if you enjoy 11-year-old girls and 4Chan.
- ProAm 12y agoNo kidding, when did GitHub turn into Reddit/4Chan/9Gag?
- scott_karana 12y agoSince the start... ;)
- xfalcox 12y agoI love it, but github could supress them behind a click to view (maybe all comments on mobile) because I just lost 10% of my data plan...
- feld 12y agopictures/gifs don't belong in github comments. this is the dumbest thing.
- pg_is_a_butt 12y agoscreenshots are essential to github comments. your face is the dumbest thing.
- DArcMattr 12y agoIf the Pull Request has to do with a bit of UI/UX, images and animations are appropriate, to demonstrate user interaction with the interface.
- joshuacc 12y agoStrongly disagree. My team puts images in comments to document visual design changes. Occasionally, we'll even drop in an animated gif to illustrate a workflow/process. These can be extremely helpful in code review.