Boost For Lemmy @lemmy.world alvendam @lemmy.world 6mo ago

[Feature request] Disable or auto-collapse inline images.

Coming over from boost from reddit, which only shows gifs in comments as a small square (tappable to show the .gif), I am absolutely heartbroken to see that Lemmy boost actually supports them. I've never wanted to see a reaction gif in a comment. Never will. It's IMO the worst feature Reddit ever implemented and something lemmy should've never copied.

I'd greatly appreciate it if there was a setting to show inline stills as the target link, given that they're sometimes useful and relevant to the discussion, and a setting to either show in comment .gifs as a little square/target link. Even better would be the option to treat comments with .gifs in them as if the user was blocked - i.e. not show them at all.

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With the amount of comments under a Lemmy post is this really a serious issue for you? If you're scrolling through hundreds or thousands of comments, I see how GIFs might be distracting but with only the few, up to a few dozens of comments under a typical post here I don't see how this can be a major dealbreaker.
- Major? Nah. But I would've preferred it if the feature was never implemented in the first place, so I'd love a setting to de-implement it.
  
  Ruben isn't your run of the mill dev. His track record for implementing requested features is long. Why not make the request and see what happens?
  
  Edit: Besides, my most used apps are, according to Nova, Boost and Boost. Discontinued boost doesn't have the issue and he's probably never going back to it even to fix what little things Reddit broke. Inline gifs used to be a planned feature, though and he'd have already implemented it if not for Reddit's fuckery and you'd see the exact same post on the subreddit. Continued boost has it, so you see it here.
  
  Of course you're free to request whatever you want. I also don't object the feature. I was just wondering on how this can be such an important feature ('IMO the worst feature Reddit ever implemented') for someone rather than a minor inconvenience. ;)
I'd support an option to collapse them automatically (and would probably use it), but I disagree that they're a bad idea. I use them a lot and really like it.

If this was implemented, I think it should render similar to how spoilers do on web Lemmy, but with the title being prefixed with [photo] and the title itself being the alt text if set. Something like this:

[Photo] An image of a pot plant

(Image here)

Spoilers aren't actually implemented in BfL yet, but that'd look like this: