GIF hosting site to go down

[Skylarking]

Seems Gyfcat, a user generated moving GIF hosting site, will go dark 1st September. As such, if there are any links within the forum that go to that site, they will be broken after this date…

So just a heads up to the forum admins with the hope that it’s possible for them to run a script to find if such links to that site, download the referenced GIF, save it locally and then refer to the local copy…

That way we don’t have the same broken link issues that plagued the forum when Imgur went rogue…

Info below

The link rot spreads: GIF-hosting site Gfycat shutting down Sept. 1

Snap-owned service has little to say, other than save or delete your stuff.

arstechnica.com

 

[Fu Manchu]

Well. There goes my material.

 

[Skylarking]

Well. There goes my material.

Thought you may have had a comment about it

 

[VS 5.0]

when Imgur went rogue

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Imgur is fine.

 

[Fu Manchu]

Thought you may have had a comment about it

 

[Darren]

Excellent thanks for the heads up on this one, will have to see how many links we have and workout a plan of action I'd say.

Bring on some fun

 

[Fu Manchu]

Excellent thanks for the heads up on this one, will have to see how many links we have and workout a plan of action I'd say.

Bring on some fun

Nah. Gyfycat would just wipe out most of my **** jokes in the posts.

Won’t affect my meaningful content.

It does highlight how important being able to upload to the forum is for technical content.

 

[Darren]

Looking through the database looks like only 38 effected posts assuming 'gfycat.com' is how they get referenced?

 

[Darren]

All links pointing at gycat have been moved and stored locally on JC.

 

[Fu Manchu]

You are an IT god.