Wire-webapp: Getting Gifs from Giphy is a real PITA

[Transisto]

Been searching more than 10min for "elon musk weed"

This is Giphy's website with that search term.

The results are just way too random.

half the time it shows nothing

Finally.
(I removed about 10 empty results in the process)

[Transisto]

Found a workaround.

Just search on giphy and copy past that unique number from the Giphy URL, 3oEduQAsYcJKQH2XsI in wire + gif.

From : https://giphy.com/gifs/cat-lasers-cucumber-3oEduQAsYcJKQH2XsI

[raearispa]

I agree with this piece of feedback, the GIF experience on Wire has a lot of room for improvement.
I hope to see this addressed in future releases.

[Transisto]

Meme posting might be more important than you think for wide adoption.

Seems like gyphy has stopped allowing searched using unique identifier, making posting memes on Wire completely unusable.

https://giphy.com/search/l1KVaixq8xLxoHEti

[mattcoxonline]

I agree with @Transisto on this one; the gif functionality needs a rework. It's sooo unreliable that I almost don't use it anymore and prefer to search the web for gifs, download and reupload them.

[Transisto]

GUYS!!!!

This is ridiculous

[mattcoxonline]

The feature works different / better on the Android beta.

[Transisto]

You don't even need the beta for that.

I'm posting in /wire-desktop/ because that's the one that's broken.

[mattcoxonline]

I'm posting in /wire-desktop/ because that's the one that's broken.

I understand. I was just pointing out the different implementations between platforms. And that on Android the feature functions as you'd expect.

For what is worth, you need not post more examples with every response, @Transisto. I'm pretty sure your problem was understood with the first set of example images.

[Transisto]

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-webapp/pull/4760

Guys ..... This fix seems like it's just about changing the sorting parameter.

[MatthiasBergen]

it would be very helpful to just search for a GIF and insert it. Now I have to start typing and with these words Wire is trying to find a GIF thats fit.

First: I want to search for a GIF separated from my message
Second: For now I am placing a fitting word into my message to find the right GIF and this word keeps staying in my message because this is the only place where I can type...but I don't want to send this "word" but only the main message + GIF

Would be really cool :-)

[Transisto]

GIF selection is still garbage 2 years later,

You just need to sort by anything else than NEW,,, How fucking hard can that be?

[Transisto]

It's really ridiculous

about 50 shuffling of 6 packs later and I can't get that gif.

I'll spare you the 50 others but trust me, they're all awfully irrelevant.

Now on Wire android,

[Aikatsui]

About Giphy

See https://github.com/wireapp/wire/issues/347 and wire need to replace this with other GIF provider.

[bennycode]

@Transisto

I just traced the requests which Giphy.com does when opening: https://giphy.com/search/elon-musk-weed

Search requests are:

# Top Image
https://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/search?api_key=...&q=elon%20musk%20weed&offset=0&limit=1

# "Random"
https://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/search?api_key=...&q=elon%20musk%20weed&offset=0&limit=25
https://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/search?api_key=...&q=elon%20musk%20weed&offset=0&limit=50
https://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/search?api_key=...&q=elon%20musk%20weed&offset=0&limit=75
https://api.giphy.com/v1/gifs/search?api_key=...&q=elon%20musk%20weed&offset=0&limit=100

Here is what app.wire.com does:

# Top Image
.../proxy/giphy/v1/gifs/random?tag=elon+musk+weed

# Random
.../proxy/giphy/v1/gifs/search?limit=100&offset=0&q=elon+musk+weed
.../proxy/giphy/v1/gifs/search?limit=100&offset=661&q=elon+musk+weed
.../proxy/giphy/v1/gifs/search?limit=100&offset=2487&q=elon+musk+weed

As you can see we pick random results by changing the offset during a search. That's totally fair because we want to show you random results when clicking on the grid icon rather than showing you always the same set of 6 GIFs.

For the very first result we also show a random GIF. There we could align with Giphy and show the top result which by the way shows "Wiz Khalifa" instead of "Elon Musk" when searching for "elon musk weed". 😉

@KizunaH

We've been very precautious when integrating Giphy because we value our user's privacy. That's why we don't request GIFs from Giphy directly but through a proxy server so your search queries are not shared with Giphy.

[Transisto]

Just fixed