Facebook Confirms It Will Officially Support GIFs

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This is the kind of thing that just makes me wish there was a open source or distributed alternative to these services. Really? A decision like this is news? What happened to the internet?

It is a bit surreal to see a news story about an enormous Internet company announcing GIF support in 2015.

What? This is huge! Now all thats missing is Whatsapp. Be a force for all thats good and just in the world and sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/whatsapp-inc-animated-gif-support

It's a design decision. Gifs used to always be eyesores, so it made sense not to support them. They've improved a lot recently.

Interesting timing for BuzzFeed to announce plans for an IPO.

http://www.businessinsider.com/buzzfeed-ipo-2015-5

I'm a bit surprised, there was enough thought put into this that facebook won't end up looking like a buzzfeed article.

> GIFs will auto-play on Facebook in line with your current video autoplay settings. If you choose to disable autoplay in your settings, you can tap or click a GIF (as indicated by “GIF” in a white circle on the image) to play it instead.

Looping MP4s are not GIFs

I'm looking forward to all the jif/gif conversations I'm about to have.

Hard-g won, it's yet another name of an invention that got away from it's inventor. (See: the crapper)

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