Hey all,

Following on from our post last week regarding our commitment to NSFW on Reddit going forward, we’d like to give you an update on what we’ve been up to since, and what you can expect next…

Firstly, thanks so much to all of you for your clear and constructive feedback over the past week or so. It really reaffirms what an engaged and insightful community we have.

Anyway, let's get into it…

Improved Embed Quality

We heard you! All newly uploaded videos should now embed to Reddit in HD. Please let us know if you’re experiencing any issues there. Examples will help us iron out any corner cases that might still remain. For full details on upload qualities, please see here: https://redgifshelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/sections/15076179476369-Quality-of-uploads

Imgur Migration Tool

To help make the transition from Imgur to RedGIFs a little easier, we’ve created a tool that allows you to migrate all of your content in just a few clicks. You can access the tool here. Note; this feature is initially only available for Verified RedGIFs users. If you’re not yet verified and think you might be eligible, head to https://www.redgifs.com/user/verify to register.

Image Embedding

RedGIFs images should display on Reddit exactly as Imgur did previously. There are two ways to obtain the share link for images for Reddit;

1) Press the ‘3 dots’ icon on your image, and then click ‘copy link’

2) Press the ‘3 dots’ icon on your image, and click ‘Share to Reddit. This will then open a Reddit pop-up, in which you can create your post

If in doubt, the share link needs to be an i.redgifs link. Unlike GIFs, copying the link directly from the browser will not result in the correct embedding. You can check out a video explainer for this here

Increased View Counts

We saw the reports about lower view counts on RedGIFs, and have revisited and tightened up our attribution from all various sources. This is a work in progress, but you should see your view counts increasing over the next week or so.

What’s next….?

Express Image Uploads, 3rd Party App/Extension Compatibility

We’re currently working on a long-term solution that allows quicker uploading of multiple images at once. We’ll be posting a further update on this in the coming week.

Additionally, we’re also working on ensuring RedGIFs works as expected on all 3rd Party Apps and extensions. If you’re aware of any cases that are currently sub-optimal, please let us know.

That’s all for now! As before, we encourage you to leave further feedback/thoughts below, on both the updates we’ve provided above and any further suggestions you might have.

Thanks,

RedGIFs Team