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Comment by benihana | Hacker News Reader

The commit is great. I love that the comments have spiraled completely out of control. At this point, 30 minutes after the link was posted, the comment thread is now a competition to see who can post the best gif.

I know we're serious here, but stuff like this reminds me why I love the internet so much. It's fun to cut loose once in a while.

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Agreed. It's such a shame that HackerNews doesn't let you post animated GIFs - I think it'd really add a lot of value to the discussions here.

I'm hoping this is sarcasm since I don't think I've seen a single intelligent discussion in my life that was helped along by a funny GIF.

Not to say there's anything wrong with funny GIF's, but I come to HN exactly because it moderates away that sort of stuff.

It was sarcasm. Sorry I forgot the <sarcasm> tags - I'll be more careful in future.

If only you could post animated GIFs, then you could have added one that indicated sarcasm.

You forgot your closing tag :)

You forgot them again.

He only forgot to close it.

You guys are a tough crowd sometimes. </sarcasm>

There is a reason why i have a extension installed in Firefox just for the ability to say when a gif is to play.

Indeed. I use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animat...

The very one.

Technically, it will let you post them as links, it just won't upload and embed them. But a plugin or a userscript would fix that, provided they're posted somewhere with an easy to deal with API like imgur.

I think it's great too, but I shudder to think what it might look like 5 years from now. I can only figure that there will be dead gifs everywhere

Looks like github hosts most/all of them so should be ok.

everything that's hosted from 'camo.githubusercontent.com' is just proxied and will go away as the source goes away.

I think most of those gifs are hosted on github. I tried to post a linked image, and it only showed the hyperlink. When I uploaded the image to github, it showed up inline.

Github proxies the images in comments: https://github.com/blog/743-sidejack-prevention-phase-3-ssl-...

Here's the code behind it: https://github.com/atmos/camo

No kidding, when did GitHub turn into Reddit/4Chan/9Gag?

Since the start... ;)

That's what I figured as well, and since https://twitter.com/seldaek/status/539773104835555329 the rate of comments went nuts :)

I really felt bad seeing how we missed that improvement for so long, so turning it all in a gif-fest is more productive than self-deprecation!

I love it, but github could supress them behind a click to view (maybe all comments on mobile) because I just lost 10% of my data plan...

pictures/gifs don't belong in github comments. this is the dumbest thing.

If the Pull Request has to do with a bit of UI/UX, images and animations are appropriate, to demonstrate user interaction with the interface.

Strongly disagree. My team puts images in comments to document visual design changes. Occasionally, we'll even drop in an animated gif to illustrate a workflow/process. These can be extremely helpful in code review.

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