Please decouple GIF-message animation from animated emotes.
The current Chat Appearance setting ties two fundamentally different features together: animated Twitch emotes and full animated GIF messages.
I want animated emotes. I do not want animated GIF messages continuously playing in chat. GIFs are substantially heavier and more visually intrusive, and disabling their animation currently also disables the animated emotes I deliberately want to see.
This has had the opposite effect from what I assume the GIF feature was intended to achieve: I have stopped using Twitch’s native chat entirely and now use Chatterino, because it lets me retain animated emotes without the performance/visual burden introduced by animated GIFs.
Please provide separate controls:
Animate emotes
Animate GIF messages
Ideally GIF messages should also have a static-preview / click-to-play option.
This is not a request to remove GIFs. It is a request not to hard-couple an established emote preference to a newly introduced, materially heavier content type.
alex2ez
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ProtozoaPrincess
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Yes, please!! GIFs should have a separate setting to only let them play on hover/click. Discord has this in their accessibility settings, because this is an accessibility issue.
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AllIWannaSee
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yes the gifs make chat unreadable for me, they take up to much space. i still want to see animated emotes.