Popular animated gifs hosting service gfycat.com is shutting down on September 1, 2023 and all hosted content will no longer be accessible at that point.
That’s crazy! I wonder what the reason for the shutdown is. Given that Gfycat was used heavily on Reddit, I have to wonder if the recent Reddit changes are at all related.
It’s privately owned by the owners of Snapchat. Might be just another victim of the post pandemic cost cutting the tech sector is going through now that venture capital has gotten much tighter. Did gfycat require reddit API calls to function? Even if so I’d imagine they could just blacklist reddit rather than close down.
That’s crazy! I wonder what the reason for the shutdown is. Given that Gfycat was used heavily on Reddit, I have to wonder if the recent Reddit changes are at all related.
@Chozo
It’s privately owned by the owners of Snapchat. Might be just another victim of the post pandemic cost cutting the tech sector is going through now that venture capital has gotten much tighter. Did gfycat require reddit API calls to function? Even if so I’d imagine they could just blacklist reddit rather than close down.