Yeah, what this person is referring to is called "room tone", it's not silence.

For me if I try to open them in browser, it shows this error:

{"error":{"code":"FileAccessDenied","message":"Access to this file was denied for your application.","status":403,"rtfm":"https://github.com/Redgifs/api/wiki/Embedding-gifs#file-access"},"docs":"https://github.com/Redgifs/api/wiki/Embedding-gifs#file-access"}

Yeah, good point!

I wasn't trying to throw shade here. I was just genuinely curious about OPs motivations for doing this. It's totally reasonable that they could have a use case where this solution makes the most sense.

That makes sense. Pretty cool, nice work!

Why not just subscribe to the release notifications or use the releases atom feed?

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