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Great story. Those animated gif's, every paragraph, were killing me.
by codazoda 9y ago
Great story. Those animated gif's, every paragraph, were killing me.
- jonheller 9y agoMe as well. Made it nearly unreadable. So distracting from an otherwise interesting story.
- mb_72 9y agoI stopped reading part way in because of them; it's juvenile and unnecessary.
- krick 9y agoTotally agree. Cannot express how much I hate them, it annoys me so much I basically cannot read otherwise interesting text while being hungry or irritated for some reason. Probably should consider this a chance to practice staying calm... But God, I hate it.
- pwg 9y agoI have NoScript running in default deny mode, I saw blank white boxes where these animated gifs should have been. The rest of the article was fully readable, with no animation distractions.
- mwrouse 9y agoWhy would noscript block a gif...? I'm going to have to take a closer look at how this website places the gifs there.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoThere's quite a lot of news sites whose in-line static JPGs all vanish with NoScript. I really have no idea what people think they're doing these days.
- qkls 9y agoThey use a static thumbnail image that is changed to a gif/webm when it loads.
- pwg 9y agoBecause the gif's are not included using basic <img> tags, but instead they are inserted by javascript code. As to why, I don't know why.
- mfrye0 9y agoSounds like I'm the minority, but if done tactfully I don't mind articles that have gifs. It kind of provides another dimension to the article as you get to see the author's emotions as they wrote it. With that said, there is definitely a point where there are too many...
- Jemmeh 9y agohttps://www.textise.net https://www.textise.net Turns websites into text only versions.
- cobrasvt 9y agoThank you for that link!
- mturmon 9y agoI must agree. I was teetering on the brink of closing the tab with every new gif. I enjoy memes, but not in this context.