Signal-desktop: Gif search - Any statement?

[error401de]

Rant incoming..
I'm happy Signal is riding the Whatsapp-Leave-Wave and that's why I'm trying to raise this topic again. As this is actually holding people back from switching as this, in the meantime, should be a very basic feature.

Signal is promising a GIF search in desktop client since over 4 years now (https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/).
An issue has been muted without any comment https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1862

As I know this is not the right platform I asked on Twitter for the status. No answer. I asked on Reddit, no answer. I asked at Signals AMA @ reddit and got ignored even there.

Can someone from Signal please finally give an ETA on something which is promised since 2016?

[EvanHahn-Signal]

We have no ETA on this feature, as it's relatively low-priority given the other things we need to work on. But this is still on our radar even after all these years!

I'm going to close this issue because it's a duplicate of #1862.

[joenepraat]

We have no ETA on this feature, as it's relatively low-priority given the other things we need to work on. But this is still on our radar even after all these years!

I'm going to close this issue because it's a duplicate of #1862.

@EvanHahn-Signal Why is this low priority? It dazzles me that people can use stickers, but not GIF's on the desktop. GIF's are very popular with my Signal friends, but it irritates me that I always have to grab my phone to send a GIF. Other messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram have this feature implemented in their desktop app for a very long time now. Please raise the priority.

[EvanHahn-Signal]

Why is this low priority? It dazzles me that people can use stickers, but not GIF's on the desktop. GIF's are very popular with my Signal friends, but it irritates me that I always have to grab my phone to send a GIF. Other messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram have this feature implemented in their desktop app for a very long time now. Please raise the priority.

Speaking as a member of the team and not for Signal at large: we spend a lot of time on prioritization.

There are a lot of things that we need to do on Desktop. We have missing features, like GIFs (this issue) and group creation/administration (#1655). But we also have urgent bugs like encryption errors when receiving messages and performance issues like #4054. With limited time, do we implement GIF support or group administration? Do we try to improve the app's startup time or do we add system tray support?

We ask ourselves these prioritization questions _a lot_, and while we may not come to the same conclusions, trust that we're doing our absolute best here.

This isn't the best place to discuss Desktop's prioritization (the community forums are a better place) or GIF support (see #1862), so let's move discussion there.

[joenepraat]

@EvanHahn-Signal Thank you for your reply. The mentioned issue is locked, so it wouldn't be possible to move over there. I will continue on the discourse forum.