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.

This feature request is still being reviewed by the feature team.
-Warren
84 comments
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Anonymous commented
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
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Anonymous commented
Is it still under review? From a year and a half ago?
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Brandon commented
Please revisit the priority of this feature implementation. We need GIFs now more than ever. Thanks
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Mad-Duke commented
I dislike gifs, would like to disable them on anything and everything for my own viewing pleasure.
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Joe commented
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!
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Kesha Laun commented
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
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.
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Anonymous commented
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,
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Tim commented
Warren is a robot
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Anonymous commented
Is it possible to disabled GIFs in Teams in web only mode?
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RK2020 commented
Under Review since August 2018. What a joke this is Warren..........
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rd commented
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.
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SBZ93 commented
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.
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Bob Maguire commented
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!
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LP commented
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.
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Jonathan commented
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
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Jonathan commented
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
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work work commented
is there a way to only have corporate-themed gifs in giphy?
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Anonymous commented
I am sick of all the LGBTQ and politically charged gifs.
Make them funny or NOTHING!!!!!!!
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Anonymous commented
In-review for almost two years isn't a good look