Ask HN: Are GIF Tutorials Anti-Patterns?

1 comments

• duiker101 1765 days ago
  Depends. I have seen great gif tutorials and I have seen terrible. Definitely mostly bad ones but they can have their niche, it should probably just not be the default go to. One exception seems to be GitHub where you can't actually host a video.
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  • gitgud 1763 days ago
    I agree GIFs are good in some cases like a small demo on Github. They are also supported pretty much everywhere.

    It's probably an anti-pattern when:

    - There's more than 1 GIF playing on the screen (can be disorienting)

    - The GIF takes too long (you can't rewind, so dont make them too long)

    - Bad quality GIFs can be annoying and useless

    Probably some more cases...