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Gifgif – A fun way to catalog the internet's emerging emotional vocabulary

#1

Post by pumainmotion » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 7:27 PM UTC

Gifgif – A fun way to catalog the internet's emerging emotional vocabulary
gifgif.media.mit.edu

Re: Gifgif – A fun way to catalog the internet's emerging emotional vocabulary

#2

Post by lcasela » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 8:45 PM UTC

That is a horrible website design. Also the gifs slow down my computer. It would be nice if they played when I hovered over them.

Re: Gifgif – A fun way to catalog the internet's emerging emotional vocabulary

#3

Post by overload119 » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 8:53 PM UTC

Neat concept, I rather enjoy the website design. However when I'm looking for reaction gif, I use the album I've bookmarked on IMGUR which is already hand curated by Reddit.

http://reactiongifsarchive.imgur.com/

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#4

Post by adamb_ » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 9:29 PM UTC

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 (Too Many Requests)

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#5

Post by isTravis » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 9:31 PM UTC

adamb_ wrote: post #4

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 (Too Many Requests)

Yikes - sorry about that. Seems to be back up now - are you getting the 429 on refresh?

Re: Gifgif – A fun way to catalog the internet's emerging emotional vocabulary

#6

Post by adamb_ » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 9:35 PM UTC

isTravis wrote: post #5

adamb_ wrote: post #4

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 429 (Too Many Requests)

Yikes - sorry about that. Seems to be back up now - are you getting the 429 on refresh?

Still getting 429. nbd (this is standard HN fare) I'll check it out in 10.

Re: Gifgif – A fun way to catalog the internet's emerging emotional vocabulary

#7

Post by isTravis » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 9:42 PM UTC

adamb_ wrote: post #6

isTravis wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yikes - sorry about that. Seems to be back up now - are you getting the 429 on refresh?

Still getting 429. nbd (this is standard HN fare) I'll check it out in 10.

Doh' - a check showed that we were "load balancing" across all of 1 port. Pulled from the wrong git branch on one of our updates apparently -_-. Running through many more node instances now - hope it's up for you. Thanks for pointing it out.

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#8

Post by sfeng » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 10:18 PM UTC

lcasela wrote: post #2

That is a horrible website design. Also the gifs slow down my computer. It would be nice if they played when I hovered over them.

I completely disagree. The whole point is to see the gifs.

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#9

Post by elwell » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 10:21 PM UTC

lcasela wrote: post #2

That is a horrible website design. Also the gifs slow down my computer. It would be nice if they played when I hovered over them.

That's the beauty of it.

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#10

Post by sesqu » Tue, Mar 04, 2014, 10:23 PM UTC

I had severe lag issues. Probably needs much smaller assets, perhaps HTML 5 video, and protection against double-clicks.