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Also: I'm not a frequent user of GIF apps/keyboards, because gifs load for so long. Did you think about it to preview only every X frame of the GIF (even like 3 frames per gif) cause people usually know what gifs they are looking for (don't have to explore the dataset to look for "the one that seems right"). Maybe it will load them quickly. And if a user does not choose a gif for X sec, it loads all of the frames or next gifs?
Our app uses the Giphy API. Not having animated GIFs meant a few of our users would eventually leave or move to platforms that do have them.
After about a year of usage, we've been relatively happy with it. Our app is PG so we need to make sure all the GIFs sent are completely PG (otherwise users blame us rather than Giphy). Not sure if your API already has the tech to do this. Giphy was pretty good at it, and we only once got a report of a porn-like GIF.
That said:
a. Yes. FB SDK was already relatively sneakier than we had expected and we would have done away with it a while ago if we didn't have so many users "signed in with facebook"
b. I assume it's just a regular HTTP request but you probably want to have Kotlin/Swift/etc
c. We might move to it IF it turned out that the privacy issue was actually real and not just our own assumption.
GIFs sucks. Most popular GIFs are video chunks played in loop. So reverse the process and convert GIF to video. With web app as 011.video for instance you can reduce the file size by a factor of 10 easily, just upload GIF, resize and download WebM video. Even better, for your own website use the original video chunk, play it in loops and make it clickable with HTML 5.
I assume it's the same for RightGIF?
Even now I find some of the labelling of Tenor (GIF Keyboard) and Giphy to be lacking. Which makes it hard to find an appropriate reaction GIF.
Better search, categories and recommendations would probably be a good addition.
Maybe a merge tool too, to combine too gifs for the perfect reaction GIF....
Well Gifs in the context of Twitter and messaging apps are almost always a reaction to something said. Even now I find some of the labelling of Tenor (GIF Keyboard) and Giphy to be lacking. Which makes it hard to find an appropriate reaction GIF. Better search, categories and recommendations would probably be a good addition. Maybe a merge tool too, to combine too gifs for the perfect reaction GIF....
GIFs are highly emotional (in most cases) I think a good UX feature would be to quickly describe a complex emotion by clicking through emotion recommendations, and adding them to a tag list which could find you matching GIFs
(Happy), (Nervous), (Scared)
(Happy), (Hungry), (Sleepy)
(Angry), (Hungry), (Tired)
This could help find the perfect reaction GIF... The possibilities are endless
http://www.davidhodder.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Emotio...
I bought a really simple (or possibly stupid?) domain that takes advantage of a particular TLD to make a common reactionary phrase, and it returns gifs that match that phrase.
I’d used the Giphy and Tenor APIs and I’d be interested in yours, but without Multiple results it’d defeat the purpose. Also I kind of assume your web site demo is limited to “safe” results, would you make “unsafe” results available via api?
I definitely think there would developers ready to use your API. Hope you will expand beyond Slack. We use RocketChat. But I assume the other platforms will be a priority first for you. Good luck growing the company by the way and offering a non-FAANG alternative.
Thank you! My hope is to be able to support as many platforms as we can, or even open up the API in way that allows users to roll their own.
