[benihana]

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.

[bshimmin]

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.

[Omniusaspirer]

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.

[bshimmin]

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

[mikeash]

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

[hafichuk]

You forgot your closing tag :)

[mring33621]

You forgot them again.

[pestaa]

He only forgot to close it.

[bshimmin]

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

[digi_owl]

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

[coldpie]

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

[digi_owl]

The very one.

[krapp]

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.

[arenaninja]

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

[SuperKlaus]

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

[pilif]

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

[benihana]

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.

[jmhobbs]

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

[ProAm]

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

[scott_karana]

Since the start... ;)

[Seldaek]

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!

[xfalcox]

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...

[feld]

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

[DArcMattr]

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.

[joshuacc]

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.