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nietzsche
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Posted - Mar 12 2014 : 1:52AM
[div]Legitimate hot linked like from imgur like? I don't mean porn necessarily. Just amusing cat clips and the like. There are a lot of interesting ways to respond to posts with animated gifs.[/div]
Edited by - nietzsche on Mar 12 2014
Drew Black
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Posted - Mar 12 2014 : 12:40PM
I dunno. Maybe.
I just hate animated gifs. I've been to too many forums filled with posts with animated shit. It's sometimes enough to induce epileptic seizures.
Goldstein All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Mar 12 2014 : 1:18PM
Agree with Drew.
Is there a compromise (e.g. click on the pic to see the animation, otherwise it normally appears like a still pic)?
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Posted - Mar 12 2014 : 9:35PM
I rather like them, except that with the already used-and-abused quoting system that places the same photo six times on the same page, a bunch of the same animated gifs going off all the same time is going to give me a headache.

















BYOB_Kenobi
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BYOB_Kenobi
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Posted - Mar 12 2014 : 10:56PM
I do love animated gifs.
There are a few notorious video clips that have been found to induce seizures posted on the internet.
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Posted - Mar 13 2014 : 6:59AM
Wouldn't it give the same problem as other embedded images? I thought those were not allowed because of the 2257 nightmare.
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Posted - Mar 13 2014 : 11:23PM
The images would not be hosted on ADT. I have no idea if that would make a difference.
Smiler Grogan All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Mar 14 2014 : 12:24PM
And I agree with Goldstein.
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Posted - Mar 14 2014 : 1:03PM
We had them for awhile. I had a couple of animated avatars here back in the day. They were cute, but I can't say I miss them much or care to see them return (the nightmare that is Tumblr soured me on the idea).
nietzsche
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Posted - Mar 16 2014 : 7:58AM
On reddit they have a thing where you click on the plus sign to expand the gif and a minus to collapse it. I think that works pretty well.
Drew Black
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Posted - Mar 17 2014 : 11:18AM
I agree with Goldstein too.
Edited by - Drew Black on 3/17/2014 11:23:17 AM
Drew Black
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Posted - Mar 17 2014 : 11:23AM
It doesn't matter since we moderate the forum. If it was completely unmoderated here we wouldn't be liable.
There's no easy/convenient way to moderate hotlinked images. We require images to be stored on our server so that we can remove them if necessary. It's not just 2257, we also get a not-insignificant number of DMCA takedown notices we have to comply with. With the images on our server I can copy/paste the offending image URL into an admin page and "poof" it's gone. Content providers appreciate immediate responses to takedown notices.
If we allowed animated gifs they would have to be on our server. I haven't looked at the tech specs in a while but there should be a way for me to reprocess them into a static image as a placeholder with a clickable JQuery action to make them play.
nietzsche
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Posted - Mar 18 2014 : 1:43AM
^ Interesting.
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Posted - Mar 18 2014 : 10:20AM
Agree with Drew.
Edited by - Goldstein on 3/18/2014 10:21:36 AM
 
Smiler Grogan All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Mar 18 2014 : 11:34PM
ultradamno
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Posted - Mar 19 2014 : 11:05AM
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