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Ability to hide or minimize gifs (at user level)

I like a lot about Teams. However, one of the nice features of your main competitor is that on things like GIFs you can minimize them. GIFs are fun, but after the initial fun they are annoying to keep seeing auto playing in the feed. So a way to minimize them in the feed would be great.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I do not agree to Giphy terms of service, because it states user data (IP, cookie) is collected and used for targeted advertising (presumably outside Teams).

    Teams users should not be forced to use Giphy especially if they disagree to these terms

  • Brandon commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please revisit the priority of this feature implementation. We need GIFs now more than ever. Thanks

  • Mad-Duke commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I dislike gifs, would like to disable them on anything and everything for my own viewing pleasure.

  • Joe commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I hate the giphy feature - we are required to use Teams at work, and people are always posting offensive ghiphy images - it is distracting and annoying!

  • Kesha Laun commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'd dislike Teams way less if I could hide the gifs. Gifs annoy me.
    Also, I'm offended that this feature is not available because gifs can cause seizures for epileptic people and you all know that.

  • J. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    YES! I have epilepsy and not being able to allow the GIFS to stop playing is an enormous hindrence - my team is a bit salty they can't use GIFs as well. They keep playing over and over and often the animation is triggering/FAST.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    please kill all gifs, they are a vehicle to spread racist images and stereotypes. I see about 50 of them a day and about 75% are racist, sexist and offensive,

  • rd commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Team chat use to be engaging, informative and professional. Now it's just contest to see who can post the wittiest meme. It is absolutely outrageous that I do not have an option to filter out memes completely. Thanks MS. Because of memes, I am starting to hate the people I work with. All they do is meme back and forth all day long, I can't stand it. So yeah, thanks for that.

  • SBZ93 commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think being able to disable gifs on a per user level is a must. they annoy allot of people and has made the adoption of teams harder with certain people refusing to use Teams due to the gifs.

  • Bob Maguire commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I'll add my request for this feature as well, for all the same reasons as everyone else has already mentioned. It was fun at first, but now it just gives me fatigue—having to scroll past all the images that take up space and my attention away from text that people are trying to type.

    I'd like a per-user setting, where one can disable inline images by default, replace them with a simple placeholder which I can click on to selectively view, if I want. Also, if the post is pure image, and I've disabled images by default, optionally don't every notify me.

    So many times I get a notification, only to switch back to Teams and find it was just a GIF or a meme. Not helpful when I'm on a deadline, and time is precious!

  • LP commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Agreed. The moving GIFs are too distracting, especially if they are in bad taste. Why do I HAVE to look at them. I just want the ability to minimize or delete them from my view space.

  • Jonathan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Chats, Teams Channels, Meeting conversations... give us an option to avoid the GIF onslaught by making them default to a collapsed view with a toggle to expand IF we choose

  • Jonathan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Help me stop feeling like a curmudgeonly old man. I always have Teams up on a secondary screen and I swear at my computer daily because of some stupid reaction gif ripping my attention away from actual work. You added the ability to use gifs without a way to neutralize them.

    Other major competing products have this feature *COUGH* *SLACK* *COUGH*

    Thanks for all the wasted space in the meantime while this is still being 'reviewed' 3+ later

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I am sick of all the LGBTQ and politically charged gifs.

    Make them funny or NOTHING!!!!!!!

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