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[Impmaster]

ethical reasons like what? Did they hire slaves in Africa or something?

[Player 3]

ethical reasons like what? Did they hire slaves in Africa or something?

Maybe like tracking, bubbling, general monopolistic behaviors, and belief in an "open web".

[Impmaster]

Oh, privacy stuff.

[moi]

youtube has become so much shit in the last few months that I probably won't care aymore soon

[Christian Knudsen]

I definitely prefer a YouTube link (or embedded video) to animated GIFs. Clicking a link to a thread and have my computer grind to a halt for half a minute while it loads a bunch of animated GIFs is really annoying. Example: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=30906.45 With a link or an embedded video, it won't start playing and downloading until you actually click play.

[Dr. Cooldude]

Some GIFs also tends to slow down the browser when there's too many of them on a single page, which is very common in the Creative forums.

youtube has become so much shit in the last few months that I probably won't care aymore soon

Be the change you want to see in the world.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

I definitely prefer a YouTube link (or embedded video) to animated GIFs. Clicking a link to a thread and have my computer grind to a halt for half a minute while it loads a bunch of animated GIFs is really annoying. Example: http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=30906.45 With a link or an embedded video, it won't start playing and downloading until you actually click play.

that's weird, that loads instantly for me, and my computer is 5 years old

[Christian Knudsen]

It mostly happens on my netbook, but if I have multiple programs/windows running, I also get the slowdown on my laptop from time to time. Maybe it's my anti-virus that blocks the page from loading fully as it scans the GIFs or something. In any case, an embedded YouTube video would definitely be preferable.

EDIT: Also bear in mind that it'll load quicker if you've already visited the thread before due to caching. But your computer might just be better than mine.

[ThemsAllTook]

Pages with lots of GIFs load fine for me, but they rarely play back properly. With big ones like what's in that devlog thread, I'll normally see a few frames of normal playback, then it slows way down and starts playing out of order. As many issues as YouTube has, it's still more reliable than a GIF.

[Udderdude]

There's a way to do Youtube embedding where the user has to first click on an image which causes the Flash component to appear.  That way, it doesn't cause your browser to explode when loading a page with 20 embedded Youtube vids.

[Derek]

Chrome in particular has a terrible time with pages full of gifs:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=240113

I'll bring up the YouTube embedding idea with Matthew.

[eigenbom]

Yeh I think embedded youtubes would be awesome for devlogs. Would save my a lot of time giffing things.

[Irock]

I agree. Embedded videos would be lovely.

[rundown]

whohoo! would be so handy!

[VDZ]

I'd like a way to turn this off if it gets implemented. I already have Flash turned off for performance reasons, but advanced HTML5 always causes major performance issues and tends to be really difficult to block properly.

[moi]

I don't think anybody would want HTML5 youtube embedding

[VDZ]

YouTube automatically switches to HTML5 when Flash is disabled. It's determined to slow down your browser no matter what.

[Dr. Cooldude]

Isn't most HTML5 components GPU optimized?

[eyeliner]

Vimeo over Youtube.

[ThemsAllTook]

Vimeo has some sort of policy against gameplay footage, doesn't it?