Snap-Owned GIF Hub Gfycat To Shut On September 1

New Delhi: Gfycat, the Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, has introduced that it will likely be shutting down the service on September 1. “The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com,” the corporate wrote on its web site.

Users solely have two months to save lots of content material earlier than the corporate discontinues the service eternally. However, it is unclear whether or not Snap intends to combine Gfycat content material into Snapchat or delete years’ value of GIFs, stories TechCrunch.

“Snapchatters are still able to search for and use GIFs in their conversations with friends,” a Snapchat spokesperson was quoted as saying. Gfycat was lately chastised after its TLS safety certificates expired in May, rendering the platform inaccessible to most customers for 5 days, the report mentioned.

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Furthermore, stories on Reddit point out that some Gfycat customers have been unable to add GIFs for months, and the assist crew seems to have been unresponsive.

Gfycat, which was based in 2013, was one of many first internet companies to permit video encoding of GIFs. Snap acquired the service in 2020. Earlier this yr, Snap shut down its digicam software for Mac and PCs on January 25.

Snap Camera allowed customers to use filters to their faces whereas they have been on video convention calls.