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democracy spoke and democracy said no

I remember gifs were autoplaying some time ago. What happened?

GIF autoplay sucks. It completely robs an element of creativity from them if they just instantly start playing. Furthermore, if they're intended to be watched in a particular order rather than just simple looping GIFs, you've completely ruined the experience of the GIF too.

>>4938
They weren't. Those were APNG's.

>>4937
>>>/poll/833

Then make autoplay an optional feature. Everyone wins

>>4943
i like the idea

>>4943
>>4944
Would probably need to be lazy-loaded then. Could make pages hard to load for people with slow connections.

lazy loading is garbo

>>4947
Better than forcing people with slow connections to wait for each every single GIF which are now autoplaying.

lazy loading breaks css unless adjustments are made for it. I can experiment, but i believe the big sites use JavaScript

>>>/poll/850

made a better poll about it

seeing gifs and moving objects being played automatically triggers me in a way, although the banners autoplay anyways, but i manage to ignore them
please do not add gif autoplay or at least make it opt-in in settings

Gif autoplay is a worthless feature that makes layouts unnecessarily distracting and was only ever a thing in alt chans that couldn't set themselves apart from 4chan through community or content and thus had to rely on surface-level features to have uniqueness. It's the quintessential crutch of the admin who hates but at the same time wishes they were 4chan staff. "Look at me, I can do things you can't".

If people want it it's going to be lower priority.

For example audio thumbails is something that was requested but never got there.

I will go over some more technical issues in the poll

>>4942
It's just a picture on an imageboard. Calm down.

>>4977
We take these things very seriously around here. Very, very seriously.

>>4977
You merely adopted the meta. I was born in it, molded by it.