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Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2016–2023), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Search leads to pages where GIFs are hard to seeUnreviewed
20162026- Hard to get an actual GIF; search leads to pages where GIFs are hard to see2022-02-11
- Search results often link to pages without actual GIFs2021-04-23
- Downloading GIFs from the site is awkward and frustrating2018-08-01
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Makes it very hard to get the actual image file2023-04-20
- Hard to get an actual GIF; search leads to pages where GIFs are hard to see2022-02-11
- Search results often link to pages without actual GIFs2021-04-23
- Can't find the clip they're looking for2020-05-15
- Downloading GIFs from the site is awkward and frustrating2018-08-01
- Slack integration pastes the first result, so the right GIF is hard to pick2017-07-31
- Giphy's search is terrible, making it hard to find good GIFs2017-07-31
- Hard to access the actual GIF image; only iframe embeds, so GIFs cannot be used directly2017-07-31
- Page loads too many animated gifs at once, freezing the browser and computer2017-05-30
- Site is slow and buggy, unusable on mobile, search results irrelevant2017-05-30
- Search almost never returns relevant or funny results2016-11-01