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RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
darn this would have been a great transition
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
it was supposed to be a gift for reddit :')
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Yes definitely. I think the founder of Mediacru.sh posted below - will email him in the coming days :D
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Haven't downloaded yet, but can't wait to!
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
One of the inspirations :')
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
ahahah ;). One of our friends actually got it for a $1 from one of his friends ahahhaha.
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
ahahah we kind of just hacked this together for fun. Legacy code, snippets, and just being silly :#
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Definitely. At first we wanted to target general audience and then transition into more technical.

It's a little conflicting because I love HN and reddit, so my* general preferences differ from what I think is actually the best transition :3

RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Thank you Paul :D
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
AWHH! Thank you :D.

Sure! I will email you about this :D. Cheers

RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
tyty :D
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
wait until you can add captions ahaha I'm already thinking of a few good ones for this gif
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Hmmmmm...it's something you'd rather maintain as 4x3 right?
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Thank you! Are you behind midacru.sh?
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Definitely :3. Any suggestions?
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Darn both taking! Will keep thinking :3
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Very good point! Will do this :D Cheers
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
ahahaha YESSS the create gif enter is something we wanted to change but just never got to :[. Will do soon!
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Yeah thumnail thing we have to work on. Thank you ^_^ appreciate the comment
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Thank you JT :D
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Thank you lotharbot ^_^. We appreciate it! Great GIF btw
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Ahaha thank you thank you. We ended up being the most upvoted thing on imgur one day ( http://imgur.com/gallery/vSDlg ), and we learned a lot of lessons after crashing a lot ahahaha:')

I'm actually surprised now too :O

RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
HMmMM Strange! I tried the video and it worked for me :O

I'll try to look into that problem :3. Nice to meet you btw ^_^

RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
I'll email you about tech* woops
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done! Also thank you for the bookmarklet. I'll PM you about the tech ^_^

As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it's a traffic thing or just one that wouldn't work normally

RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
I'm sorry :(. That was totally me. I made sadsquidward.com and riddlydiddly.com a little while ago and just was obsessed with GIFs ahaha.

Will definitely change in the next update. I was thinking maybe a very small change just for the lols- like a cloud just drifting by

RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Mwaha I love it. What's really cool is clicking the View on Youtube button to go back to the source video ^_^
RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Plan was to get a different domain (suggestions?) and fwd it but still have the GYT functionality

I'm not 100% sure if youtube minds. Someone from youtube actually put it on one of their videos (a button for it), and then said youtube community department were having fun and spreading it around

We don't use a 3rd party queueing software ^_^.

RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Thanks for the feedback! I definitely agree and something we were trying to work on.

One thing that's difficult is choosing the finishing time on the video. For example if it's 5 seconds or something, the two end points are really close.

What do you think about beta.gifyoutube.com? It's a little different mechanics for choosing start time (which I'm not the best fan of), but maybe it's a little easier for end time.

I'm actually not really sure on this. We were going to try some A|B testing but the beta GYT isn't 100% ready

RoryGlyphic··on Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
Absolutely! We actually made a webm version (that's the smallest size to date and the fastest to create), but just wanted to perfect GIF creation and get some captions on the system early before introducing webm.

Maybe we should reverse that?

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