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
49 comments
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Carol Malony
commented
I concur. It's silly how much junk I have to weed through to get to an actual communicated message.
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Anonymous
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This should be true of ALL images.
And for all LONG postings, such as when someone posts a long code snippet. It takes up half the screen, and after I've seen it, it's annoying to have to scroll past it. All "large" entries in a conversation should be "collapsible".
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Sam
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This is also an accessibility issue. Ignoring this issue puts people at risk, physically and psychologically. Some people, notably epileptics, simply cannot handle excessive animation.
It would literally be a 5-minute fix. I don't know why Microsoft is dragging their heels on something like this.
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Subraat
commented
Any progress on this ?
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cat belle
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the constant movement of the gifs is annoying. They are also too large in my opinion. I like them, but would like to be able to make them less 'in your face'. In skype, they are much smaller, and the movement stops after a few seconds; that makes sense to me
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Joe
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Another request for the ability to minimize gifs. They take up so much screen space and (as others have said) don't really add value.
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Mike Scarborough
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Having an all-or-nothing setting at the Team level is too coarse an option. Would really like an option to disable gifs for my user without affecting others.
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Anonymous
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Still nothing configurable.
I would really want to use another client but I can't. :'( -
Matt Scott
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Nothing makes me click out of Teams faster seeing an animated GIF in the comments. I would love the ability to hide them and only see the actual information associated with a post.
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Brent
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While you are in there, it would be nice if I had control over whether or not to notify me based on whether its just a gif.
Some channels, I want notifications as things are posted.... unless it was a gif, in which case ... don't even bother me. to me, that's not an update on the channel, its someone trying to be cute.
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Lara
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Looks like your are just chitchating instead of having a important conversation just because someone put a gif in the middle.
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Anonymous
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PLEASE ADD THIS NOW I AM DYING WITH ALL THESE STUPID GIFS
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Anonymous
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This isn't a thing in 2019? Really!? Talk about short-sited and narrow minded in your view of how chat should work in a corporate environment.
MS Teams already automatically hides useful information we want to see behind the "show more..." thing I have to click EVERY SINGLE THREAD. You of course do not give us an option to disable the hiding of useful information. How is it you will not allow us to hide things we DO NOT WANT TO SEE?
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James Hayes
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No single feature makes me miss the days of HipChat more than this one. Man I wish we still had HipChat and not Teams.
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John Slack
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/collapse [visible, all] functionality in addition to individual chat room options such as images and Gifs post minimized/expanded by default and an option for auto-play on/off would be the ideal. The more transparent and granular the control the better.
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Joe
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Please allow us to disable GIFs. I don't won't to see them. They contribute nothing, but I have some immature coworkers who just can't resist.
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Just Me
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For the love of god, disable the toddler feature of this auto playing memes! I have to use this inferior product, but at least show me the mercy of disabling the childish memes!
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Bob Kiholm commented
I manage a good sized operations team and we have adopted Teams as our standard. There are a lot of great features, but the lack of this feature is definitely a pain point for us. To many other's points on this, we need the ability to hide, (or control in some way,) a GIF on the receiving end of a message. It should not be required for my team to request that the sender deletes a GIF from their message stream so that they don't have to see it. Each user should be able to control what shows up on their screen. In a case where someone is presenting in a meeting and they receive a GIF that is not meant for that audience, it would be nice for them to have the option to not have them show up or something similar. We are working hard to make Teams work for us, but this really should change. There is rarely a time when a GIF is required to convey a message that words can. They are fun for messaging friends but they are definitely not necessary for running our business.
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Dan
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As silly as this may seem, it's actually a pretty significant feature that greatly affects the user experience.
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Adam
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I cannot believe this is not already a feature. GIFs are extremely distracting and provide zero value.