Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by whalesalad on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:21PM
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Couldn’t you just... drag the gif into Slack?
> dragging in gifs ... resulted in an attachment
Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by lovegoblin on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:58PM
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I've never had this problem, and I do it all the time. It embeds just fine.
Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by jjoonathan on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:09PM
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Non-animated GIFs embed just fine, if that's what you mean. I just tried animated again, and sure enough, attachment.
Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by whalesalad on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:09PM
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S3 bucket, FTP folder, imgur... for your custom gif's and then you can paste a URL and get animation. No frills.
Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by jjoonathan on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:42PM
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If I paste a URL, I get a URL, not an embedded image. Then people have to click it to see the gif, and they don't, so it defeats the purpose.
Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by whalesalad on Friday May 15, 2020 @06:34PM
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That is a preference you disabled. By default URLs are expanded inline.
Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by prophetjohn on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:15PM
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Copy and paste it into slack instead
Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by jjoonathan on Friday May 15, 2020 @04:44PM
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Uhh.... that creates an attachment.
I'm begging to suspect that there's a setting, hidden size threshold, or something involved.
Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M
by RandallBrown on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:09PM
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Could be a setting in your organization or something I guess. Uploading a gif works fine for me and it's animated.
Just typing /giphy <search term> is so easy though.
This 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.
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.