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.
Ryan Hutchinson
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This feature request is still being reviewed by the feature team.
-Warren
90 comments
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Anonymous
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Wow, well I found the people that don’t condone blowing off steam and incorporating some lightheartedness into the day. Gif usage isn’t a teams issue, it’s a policy and enforcement one. Your job should have a policy if it’s an issue.
I do agree something needs to be available for people with epilepsy though.
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Neil
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i find them a major distraction and of no use + as noted by others; they take up literally 90% of screen real estate and i'm like go away i hate you
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Anonymous
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It would be an enormous help when teaching to be able to do this because some students get distracted by having the option to upload or use means available (that I can't turn off) and have 'fun' seeing how many different things they can upload. It's a real pain! Please change it.
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Anonymous
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How to Stop Gifs, Memes, and Emojis in Microsoft Teams.
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Nah fam
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i really want to hide gifs from showing on my side of the conversation. when a gif stream starts up with a group chat, it just takes up the entire screen and I can't find the actual conversation anymore. I do not want them to be playing automatically. Having a conversation idle on one screen and flashing a gif at you is extremely annoying.
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NA
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Are you guys still thinking about this?
Some people in teams keep on sending GIFs and we need at the very least a way to have them not playing automatically and in a loop.
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Anonymous
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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
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Is it still under review? From a year and a half ago?
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Brandon
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Please revisit the priority of this feature implementation. We need GIFs now more than ever. Thanks
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Mad-Duke
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I dislike gifs, would like to disable them on anything and everything for my own viewing pleasure.
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Joe
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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Warren is a robot
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Anonymous
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Is it possible to disabled GIFs in Teams in web only mode?
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RK2020
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Under Review since August 2018. What a joke this is Warren..........
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rd
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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
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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
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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!