Closed error401de closed 3 years ago
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.
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.
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.
@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.
It makes me really sad to see the mentioned community forum is full of requests for something which is promised since years - and in the end something like a screensharing is suddenly released out of nowhere. https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/releases/tag/v5.3.0-beta.3
I am very thankful for what Signal is doing, but I do not understand this "prioritization" at all anymore.
Sorry for using this request again, instead of the community. But over there, there is no reaction to all this users at all.
Any update about GIF support?
Although it seems that this issue is "Closed," I think the conversation needs to continue for a couple of reasons.
@EvanHahn-Signal thanks for the context. #1862 which you refer to has been automatically closed too, and locked. Would it be possible to reopen either https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/1862 or this one, please?
@EvanHahn-Signal thanks for the context. #1862 which you refer to has been automatically closed too, and locked. Would it be possible to reopen either #1862 or this one, please?
Don't bother, they won't do that. Users should go to https://community.signalusers.org/, although if asking this question or any other ETA question, your reply will be hidden by the mods. 🤷🏻
Yeah, there is a full disconnection to the community. I don't understand what the "Feature request" section in the community is actually for, in the meantime there is 0 collaboration with the Signal team anymore (but hiding questions regarding a request which is now promised since 6 years, which in the end is a more or less simple modal, as the backend logic is already existing).
@EvanHahn-Signal Would you merge a PR with this functionality?
I've made a simple Python tool that allows you to paste a gif into a Signal Desktop app with a single global hotkey as long as you have the URL in your clipboard: https://github.com/MikulasZelinka/signal-desktop-gif
reviving this thread in sadness and despair :(
why is this neglected so badly? is there any stats on % of desktop users?
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?