Gfycat is being discontinued (after 1 September 2023)

[uzarnom]

Summary

Gfycat is being discontinued after 1 September 2023. Users are being recommended to save their uploads as all hosted data will be inaccessible.

 

 

Quotes

Quote

 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

Additional Info
Looks like the site's owner had let the certificate expire temporarily in May (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/the-link-rot-spreads-gif-hosting-site-gfycat-shutting-down-sept-1/)

 

My thoughts

We did it samurai. The internet is undergoing a mass exodus. To all the datahorders, you were right, please roll back the internet before my dad wakes up.

 

Sources

https://lemmy.world/post/953190?scrollToComments=true
https://gfycat.com/

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/02/gfycat-com-shuts-down-on-september-1-and-all-gifs-will-be-taken-down/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/the-link-rot-spreads-gif-hosting-site-gfycat-shutting-down-sept-1/

[Ydfhlx]

Yet another site which was burning money and now can't, due to rising interest rates.

[whispous]

1 hour ago, Ydfhlx said:

Yet another site which was burning money and now can't, due to rising interest rates.

That and "keep spending money with no further plans" isn't a workable business model anyway

[DuckDodgers]

The dotcom bubble is repeating itself again. The Web 2.0 investment model is headbutting against reality the "free" money is drying out. YT is cracking on adblockers, Netflix chasing out free riders, Twitter and Reddit are paywalling their APIs and the weak players are simply closing the shop. Google, as usual, will simply throw even more services to their graveyard of dead projects.

The tightening privacy and data sharing laws across the world is simply pouring more gas on the fire.

[starsmine]

man that link rot is going to be rough.
At least it wont be as bad as photobucket going down. 

[Gork]

Yoinks. I'm having serious 90s vibes.  Not the good side of 90s either. Like another poster said YT is going ape %#@! over addblockers. Or at least add block plus. PCs going back to 'prebuilt is a little cheaper' mode. Apple can't game still. Now we just need a dude that plays sax get it on with a officer worker.

[williamcll]

Just dump your gifs on LinusTechTips.com

 

Don't even need a floatplane subscription for this kind of content

[TempestCatto]

35 minutes ago, williamcll said:

Just dump your gifs on LinusTechTips.com

 

Don't even need a floatplane subscription for this kind of content

There's gonna be lots of r34 stuff... (hopefully ._.)

[uzarnom]

9 hours ago, starsmine said:

man that link rot is going to be rough.
At least it wont be as bad as photobucket going down. 

Its a good think we have internet archive ... oh no

[Mark Kaine]

deserves them right for misspelling Gif like that...