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Watch Out Tumblr, Pinterest Now Supports GIFs — techcrunch.com
Earlier this week, some Pinterest users noticed that the company was experimenting with support for animated GIFs on its site – the popular, moving images that, until recently, defaulted to static photos when pinned. Today, Pinterest says that it’s rolling out support for GIFs to all pinners on the web, with mobile support expected “soon.”
According to the company, around 1 million users see a GIF on Pinterest every day, and there are already 10 million GIF images across the site. These pins will retroactively become animated GIFs, it seems.
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Horrible idea! This will drastically change the experience.
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Dain, indeed it will be a huge change, I agree. I also struggle to understand what to do about GIF's. Lately I have seen great work with gifs and so we are considering them. riffraff , thoughts?
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I think if GIFs require user action to start (think of "play" button) than it's ok. On the other hand if they are moving by default they are so distracting that they can only work in an environment where they are the main and only thing.
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