AlmightyZiggy 5 Share Posted December 4, 2021 No. Lately this has become a really big pet peeve of mine. I think gifs are incredibly overused in mini-profiles and the like, and I find them very distracting and unnecessary, particularly if they display on the home page like in the member's online list on proboards, for example. I do appreciate gifs - I do around 80% of my online communication through gifs, particularly on discord. But I find it really overwhelming and distracting when they are overused on forums for aesthetic purposes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crybbage 6 Share Posted December 13, 2021 (edited) I think if it's bad enough to slow down the loading significantly, I'm more likely to just close the site and not return. A few here and there (especially if contained to profiles only and not all over the site) don't bother me much. As long as I can read your post without getting distracted by a constant flow of gifs, I think I'd be okay. Edited December 13, 2021 by crybbage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSky 3 Share Posted February 14, 2022 I like gifs. I really do. But my internet is slow so I tend toward simplistic sites now. If I had high speed internet, it'd be different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blooming of the Blooms 19 Share Posted May 1, 2022 (edited) As someone coming from Tumblr, I love gifs and their visual appeal and stimulus. It's a really fun process to pick them out for posts too, so long as they're noy mandatory (sometimes there just isn't the One Gif, sigh...). Edited May 1, 2022 by Rainbow Wilderness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Oblivious 5 Share Posted June 23, 2022 I don't find that it deters me from joining at the end of things. Some are way more demanding when it comes to that sort of thing, but if the writing and the general feel of the place is good, I overlook it well enough myself. Gifs are generally easy to find, and there's some good free programs readily available to edit them. That being said, I'd rather just have the one odd gif and be done with it. I join a RP board to write at the end of the day. If I wanted to dabble in graphics all the time I'd do a course or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outskrt 0 Share Posted July 4, 2022 I don't like seeing a lot of gifs on one page, I don't really know where to look first Hello! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Image 2 Share Posted July 6, 2022 I have mixed feelings on gifs. I like them, but not used for every little thing. Mostly because my internet is slow and some times has trouble rendering the page if there are a lot of gifs on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matsumota 5 Share Posted July 22, 2022 Depends on the thematic elements of the website and the abundance of them. White Sand original universe Forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Endy 5 Share Posted November 11, 2022 I would say no, but here's the challenge - most of the time I won't notice, because I actually keep images turned off in my browser - I just don't load them. I also have a GIF/MJpeg/APNG stopper for when I do allow images through. It helps with privacy (no conversion pixels), it helps with my vision issues (give me plain text, thanks), and it helps with my internet speed. So I suppose that I avoid image-heavy sites in general, because my vision issues mean that I generally avoid such things. Longtime roleplayer with experience across multiple franchises and genres; though trending toward Sci-Fi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntandmoon 5 Share Posted August 13, 2023 I don't mind if someone has an animated avatar, or even a gif on their profile/bios -- I don't LIKE them, and don't use them myself, but I find them acceptable. It's only when they're inserted in the posts themselves of a board that I find them obnoxious. But similar to Endy, I try not to join image-heavy sites in general, whether the images are static or dynamic, as I find it distracting from the actual text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malikgrippen 0 Share Posted September 11, 2023 No i find it too distracting. Shadow Fleet SHADOWFLEET.ORG Shadow Fleet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mint 1 Share Posted March 21 I really can't. I live in a rural area and my computer will freeze if there's too much gif action going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skairipa 1 Share Posted April 3 I've honestly never been on a site where gifs are strewn about all willy nilly! The most they're used on the site I have now is for secondary profile images (or square images can be used!) and like I like to use them as an icon in the post-template we have! Other than that it's basically just gifs being used on occasion in the discord when we're chatting! hi 👀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtferdinand 0 Share Posted April 8 One here or there is okay. The key for me is never more than 1 on a page. I was thinking about including a post with images players can use in my first game. Probably won’t include gifs now 😅 Spoiler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrs. flax 1 Share Posted April 19 I roleplay on my work laptop because I am a terrible employee, so too many gifs = extremely suspicious. For this reason I will avoid sites with an abundance of gifs (or images, period). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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