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This is awesome.

Side note: I absolutely despite how Twitter bakes all GIFs into videos and prevents you from saving them as GIFs.

When there's a gif in a discussion, it's like 3 taps on mobile to play it despite having a play icon on it. First time you touch it, it just expands the tweet. Then it expands the video. Then it actually plays the video.

Hilariously bad ui.

You say "bad UI," twitter says "increased engagement!"

Potato, potahto.

I know you're joking but that's still a bullshit metric and a risky one to make if they are looking at only taps + total time. It's not increasing ad revenue, extending meaningful engagement time, or user happiness.

Having worked in analytics for a long time I've seen countless examples of metrics like these being needlessly optimized so I find it harder to laugh at.

GIF is basically a bad file format, which is why people will use anything else

Twitter doesn't let you save the video neither.

One (cumbersome) way of saving the video is to open the tweet and prefix it with m. e.g https://m.twitter.com/github/status/917527674163167233 and then download video.

Shift+Right Click on Firefox should work.

youtube-dl link to tweet from your terminal

That always results in desynced A/V whenever I try it.

Usually lots of errors like the following from ffmpeg, then the audio is about a second behind the video

[mp4 @ 0x98668b4620] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 132227, current: 131204; changing to 132228. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.

Incidentally, the output and uploaded file is a video, because there's no point in saving it as a GIF since it'll be baked into a video anyways.

Not only that, the interface makes it impossible to see even images at actual size unless you use the DOM inspector. For large images with small text this is unusable.

(I also resent websites which put transparent divs over images or videos to prevent Save-As, but this is really widespread)

> (I also resent websites which put transparent divs over images or videos to prevent Save-As, but this is really widespread)

I agree. Did anyone write an extension that lets you click on an image, and which would then dig down through the DOM and find its actual source? I'm considering learning how to write browser extensions just to make that.

Isn't that what HoverZoom is made for?

Ah, that certainly seems to do what I want for Twitter, thanks!

There's a not on the Github page, where he mentions that he doesn't uses GIF but video's. The files generated are actually videos, not proper GIFs. Videos are created much faster, take less disk space, and on Twitter, functionally identical to GIFs (videos less than 6 seconds will also autoloop).

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