Meme magic

July 20, 2016

We host a lot of gaming forums, where memes – often in the form of animated GIFs – are everywhere. The problem is, they're often very heavy files. Large enough to bring your 3G connection to its knees. To solve this, we've introduced a special click-to-play handler for animated GIFs, and added embed support for Giphy, Imgur and Twitch.

We've also rolled out a slightly more fundamental feature, namely topic subscriptions. You can now receive email notifications when someone comments on your bookmarked discussions and private conversations. It's kind of an obvious feature, but we wanted to get it right.

For something that sounds so simple, it's surprisingly tough to implement and scale. For instance, how do notifications operate in a real-time discussion? How do they interact with pre-moderation? And how do we send that many emails at once? In any case, we've done the worrying so you don't have to. The end result is completely seamless. We hope you like it!