New Delhi: Snap-owned GIF-hosting platform Gfycat has announced that it will be shutting down the service on September 1. “The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging into your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be transferred to the gfycat. com,” the company wrote on its website.
Users only have two months to save content before the company shuts down the service forever. However, as TechCrunch reports, it is unclear whether Snap intends to integrate Gfycat content into Snapchat or remove years-old GIFs.
“Snapchatters are still able to find and use GIFs in conversations with friends,” a Snapchat spokesperson was quoted as saying. The report states that Gfycat was recently penalized after its TLS security certificate expired in May, rendering the platform inaccessible to most users.
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Furthermore, reports on Reddit indicate that some Gfycat users have been unable to upload GIFs for months, and the support team appears to be unresponsive.
Gfycat, which was founded in 2013, was one of the first web services to allow video encoding to GIF. Snap acquired the service in 2020. Earlier this year, Snap shut down its Camera application for Mac and PC on January 25th.
Snap Camera allowed users to apply filters to their faces during video conference calls.