New Delhi: Gfycat, the Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform, has announced that it will shut down the service on September 1. “The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting and logging in to your account. On September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com,” the company wrote on its website.
Users have just two months to save content before the company shuts down the service forever. However, it’s unclear whether Snap intends to integrate Gfycat content into Snapchat or delete years’ worth of GIFs, reports TechCrunch.
“Snapchatters are still able to search for and use GIFs in their conversations with friends,” a Snapchat spokesperson was quoted as saying. According to reports, Gfycat was recently penalized after its TLS security certificate expired in May, leaving the platform inaccessible to most users for five days.
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Furthermore, reports on Reddit indicate that some Gfycat users have been unable to upload GIFs for months, and the support team seems unresponsive.
Gfycat, founded in 2013, was one of the first web services to allow video encoding of GIFs. Snap acquired the service in 2020 Earlier this year, Snap discontinued its camera app for Mac and PC on January 25
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