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Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#161

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Shouldn't you be more worried about legal issues of turning a copyrighted broadcast, possibly not even uploaded by the content owner, into a gif?

My blog is officially part of one of the content owners' networks. Plus there's the whole "fair use doctrine" that generally allows small snippets for commentary purposes.

I've never heard of these networks, mind explaining how it works?

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#163

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Hey Nam! Really appreciate the comment. We were just being silly and hacking away at it adding random things that made us lol hahaha. You're right though. Moving forward minimalist is what we hope to accomplish. Thanks for the feedback ^_^

I like the design, all the way down to Copy Past Z. I think grandparent post is out of touch with your target demographic :D

On the flipside, I think the target demographic would use it without a second thought regardless of the design because the thing they're after is the end result. They only look at this site for fleeting seconds to develop their gif. Essentially, you're trying to appeal to an already sure audience, and in doing so risk losing out on the 'maybe' audience.

I cannot think of a target demographic who would use the site in its current incarnation but would not if it were a cleaner, simpler, "less /b/-inspired" design. I can however think of a demographic who wouldn't use the site unless it were cleaner.

edit: This sounds like A/B testing 101 to me.

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#164
post #161

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My blog is officially part of one of the content owners' networks. Plus there's the whole "fair use doctrine" that generally allows small snippets for commentary purposes.

I've never heard of these networks, mind explaining how it works?

Here's the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueHoop (we're a part of ESPN.)

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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post #126

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I'll email you about tech* woops

Well you are posting at an extremely tech oriented group. I believe i speak for like 90% here that we all want to hear about the tech* wooops. Shed some light in how you made everything. This is what interests us mostly.

OP will surely deliver

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#167
post #126

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I'll email you about tech* woops

Well you are posting at an extremely tech oriented group. I believe i speak for like 90% here that we all want to hear about the tech* wooops. Shed some light in how you made everything. This is what interests us mostly.

This may not be 100% accurate, but this is one way of doing it:

1) youtube-dl ${video-id} video.avi #download youtube to avi

2) ffmpeg -i video.avi -t 10 out%02d.gif #export avi file to gif frames

3) gifsicle --delay=10 --loop *.gif > anim.gif #makes animated looping gif

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#169

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https://gifyoutube.com/ seems to work just fine.

carlesfe is talking about using the bookmarklet in a situation when you're viewing a youtube video over https

Yes, we all got that. But the reason why doing so would break gifyoutube would have been because gifyoutube didn't support HTTPS. Which is why the former commenter noted that gifyoutube does support SSL.

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#170
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The presentation of the page ("copy pasta z", the fullscreen gif background, the popup in the middle, the banner in the top left) all strike me as being dodgy/malicious and from a site that I'd immediately want to close and never visit again. I'm not sure why you see the need to be so 'internet' with it all when you could do a fully functional equivalent that would be easier on your servers too. Just make it clean an…

I'd second that. Make it clean, easy for the eye and it's far more usable. But great tool nonetheless. Props to you!

Ab testing at the moment :D. Or at least setting it up
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