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Re:Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog by snazz on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:03AM (#20060940)
I’m conflicted. When the video is so long that waiting for it to restart is painful, I think that an actual video with pause/play/seek controls is preferred. At the same time, it’s nice that it autoplays. For 100% text/CLI videos, I prefer Asciinema as it doesn’t involve downloading an 18MB GIF.
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Re:Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog by mathieudutour on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:05AM (#20060957)
Indeed, I'd love GitHub to support video embed in the readme, but having to go to another page to see the video is a bit of a no-no for me...

On twitter I did use a video instead of a gif: https://twitter.com/MathieuDutour/status/1134448154793914368

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Re:Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog by snazz on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:07AM (#20060977)
Maybe a short GIF and a longer full video? I don’t know. This is all super off-topic anyway. I like the project very much.
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Re:Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog by 0xffff2 on Friday May 31, 2019 @10:19AM (#20061097)
Alternate POV: I hate gifs in readmes precisely because of the autoplays. I find it incredibly difficult to read a block of text when there's a gif moving around directly above/below it.
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