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#61

That's a really nice animated GIF, with very little color and font degradation. I'd love to know how it was made. I have [a couple I made recently here]( http://robenkleene.github.io/2016/03/17/live-search/ ) using [gifify]( https://github.com/vvo/gifify ). Maybe it's just the color palette that makes it look better?

Seriously is there a tool for making these gifs? Converting from video always gets degradation.

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#62

That's a really nice animated GIF, with very little color and font degradation. I'd love to know how it was made. I have [a couple I made recently here]( http://robenkleene.github.io/2016/03/17/live-search/ ) using [gifify]( https://github.com/vvo/gifify ). Maybe it's just the color palette that makes it look better?

I know a lot of GitHubbers use http://www.cockos.com/licecap/ to make their GIFs

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#63

That's a really nice animated GIF, with very little color and font degradation. I'd love to know how it was made. I have [a couple I made recently here]( http://robenkleene.github.io/2016/03/17/live-search/ ) using [gifify]( https://github.com/vvo/gifify ). Maybe it's just the color palette that makes it look better?

https://github.com/Jam3/ffmpeg-gif

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#64
Why am I getting the Saved Replies dropdown appearing every single time I add a comment? It's extremely irritating. I understand doing it once to tell me that the feature exists, but doing it repeatedly after I keep closing the dropdown is really aggravating.

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#65

That's a really nice animated GIF, with very little color and font degradation. I'd love to know how it was made. I have [a couple I made recently here]( http://robenkleene.github.io/2016/03/17/live-search/ ) using [gifify]( https://github.com/vvo/gifify ). Maybe it's just the color palette that makes it look better?

> Maybe it's just the color palette that makes it look better

The color palette size definitely plays a part, but the vast majority of degradation is the result of scaling down. This is what a gif looks like which was captured at HD (1280x720) and scaled down to 670x377

http://gitsense.github.io/images/realtime-blog/master.gif

The gif in GitHub's post hasn't been scaled down at all, which makes all the difference in the world.

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#66
post #28

This is awesome. I have a repo with only about 1k stars, so nowhere near the adoption of something like npm, etc. Even on my repo, I still regularly receive issues that say "it doesn't work. Why?" With no reproducable info. These will cut the time on asking for that info and give more time back to other users or the project itself.

Don't forget https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-template... - even for private repos it really has changed the way we do bug reporting (for the better).

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The implication here, isn't so much that what was created was new, it's "Would this feature had been created had somebody else not shown GitHub a better way?" Since the commit history for https://github.com/notwaldorf/github-canned-responses/commit... is fairly new, it's easy to believe this feature was in GitHub's pipeline for a while. If this wasn't the case, it can sting from a brand perception point of view. GitH…

I sincerely doubt much of their userbase will look at things so emotionally as to damage the company. Most of github seems to quietly continue ticking over no matter what the drama.

I don't disagree. My sister has been using GitHub for years and she's never heard of the dear GitHub letter. The reputation part will have greater impact on Enterprise though.

The reason why Enterprise sales cycles are so long, is because they want to make sure if they go with vendor X, they aren't shooting themselves in the foot in the long run. The trial period for the most part is risk assessment, because once you start building solutions around something, decoupling is extremely painful and risky.

Companies are desperately trying to get off ClearCase (million dollar licenses), but they can't because their existing build systems, verification, etc. are so integrated with it, that decoupling introduces too much down time risk.

If we found a situation where GitHub was constantly copying from Bitbucket or GitLab or who ever becomes the next thing, it's definitely going to introduce doubts about whether GitHub is the right choice for the long run.

Drama will not affect that web designer that is paying $7 a month for a hosting plan, but it will cause doubts for those looking to spend 10s of thousands a year.

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post #62

That's a really nice animated GIF, with very little color and font degradation. I'd love to know how it was made. I have [a couple I made recently here]( http://robenkleene.github.io/2016/03/17/live-search/ ) using [gifify]( https://github.com/vvo/gifify ). Maybe it's just the color palette that makes it look better?

I know a lot of GitHubbers use http://www.cockos.com/licecap/ to make their GIFs

licecap is awesome, but this gif looks like it was programmatically made. Notice the accelerated yet perfectly aligned cursor movement...

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#69
This should probably be available at the repository level too so if you've got collaborators who need to use the same responses they can be shared.

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#70

Now _this_ is the kind of feature that really, really, really helps me. This will make my life immediately, measurably better.

FYI, there are lots of tools that bring this functionality to any application or website, such as https://www.trankynam.com/atext/ or http://www.yesware.com/ for Gmail. Sharing templates isn't the bottleneck, just inserting them. No need to wait for Github to build it!
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