When there's a gif in a discussion, it's like 3 taps on mobile to play it despite having a play icon on it. First time you touch it, it just expands the tweet. Then it expands the video. Then it actually plays the video.
I know you're joking but that's still a bullshit metric and a risky one to make if they are looking at only taps + total time. It's not increasing ad revenue, extending meaningful engagement time, or user happiness.
Having worked in analytics for a long time I've seen countless examples of metrics like these being needlessly optimized so I find it harder to laugh at.
That always results in desynced A/V whenever I try it.
Usually lots of errors like the following from ffmpeg, then the audio is about a second behind the video
[mp4 @ 0x98668b4620] Non-monotonous DTS in output stream 0:1; previous: 132227, current: 131204; changing to 132228. This may result in incorrect timestamps in the output file.
Not only that, the interface makes it impossible to see even images at actual size unless you use the DOM inspector. For large images with small text this is unusable.
(I also resent websites which put transparent divs over images or videos to prevent Save-As, but this is really widespread)
> (I also resent websites which put transparent divs over images or videos to prevent Save-As, but this is really widespread)
I agree. Did anyone write an extension that lets you click on an image, and which would then dig down through the DOM and find its actual source? I'm considering learning how to write browser extensions just to make that.
There's a not on the Github page, where he mentions that he doesn't uses GIF but video's.
The files generated are actually videos, not proper GIFs. Videos are created much faster, take less disk space, and on Twitter, functionally identical to GIFs (videos less than 6 seconds will also autoloop).
That's pretty amazing. Too bad we can't print GIFs. Will this lead to a resurgence of "MTGIF" or "Magic: The GIFering"?
(And all this time, I've been doing it manually with Imgur images and MTGCardMaker.com. Tangentially, here is an album of MTG cards I made to try and "port" common Powershell functions to MTG: https://imgur.com/a/4sa6v)
Very interesting project, integrating all these different libraries. One thing, I noticed that you are using a hardcoded path to the json. Created an issue for you https://github.com/minimaxir/magic-the-gifening/issues/2. Thanks for sharing your work.
And calls create_mtg_gif, which calls get_giphy_gif, which requests GIFs from the giphy API by searching for the card name, and then finds one that has an appropriate aspect ratio.
Haha does that mean that "prog" and "cons" designers actually have basically identical tastes, and fixate on tiny insignificant differences while ignoring a whole universe of design possibility? That would explain how fast Twitter gets new things out the door...
Actually one just have to press the "end" key a few times and you quickly display all tweets of a single person, just not sorted.
Anyway, this feature its missing for the time-less accounts (e.g not time-sensitive tweets), such as the one featured in this project and other ones like @AwardsDarwin @DeviantArt, @greatestquotes
Side note: I absolutely despite how Twitter bakes all GIFs into videos and prevents you from saving them as GIFs.