[teach]

I've been rooting for MediaCrush from the beginning, but there are two things I prefer about gfycat:

1) Their scrubber handle is REALLY slick and easy to use.

2) I never have to worry that gfycat will make noise if I blindly open a link in a new tab.

If you could give me a cookie so that mediacrush links will ALWAYS start muted for ME, no matter what the author or URL say, I'd be much happier.

And something neither one of you get right (I think):

If I open five animated GIFs each in their own tab, the images don't start playing until I switch to that tab. So once I make a given tab active, I get to see the animation starting from the beginning. Both gfycat and MediaCrush start playing the animation right away, so when I eventually make that tab active, I have to rewind to see from the start. (Or, in your case, click play if autoplay is off. Which isn't as bad but still less convenient than "play on focus" that I get with animated GIFs.)

Anyway, my $0.02. I care about quality and open source, but the average Redditor/4chan'r cares not about such things.

[Sir_Cmpwn]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll put some thought into playing autoplayed videos only after the tab gets focus.

https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/issues/543