It’s now easier to post text GIFs on Slack

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by Sindy Cator on September 21, 2015 at 2:52 pm

Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

GIFs are a wonderful way of expressing yourself on the Web, but sometimes you don’t want a full blown clip. Thankfully, posting animated text GIFs on Slack just got a lot easier. http://cdn1.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2015/09/CPMssjqWsAAw0Nw.mp4 An update to the Giphy plugin allows you to post text-based GIFs by adding ‘#text’ before your search terms. The full sequence would look like this: /giphy #text pizza Which pulled up this insightful image that looks like it belongs in the Geocities era: The use of the hashtag modifier could also indicate that we’ll be able to find more kinds of specific GIFs on Slack in…