GIF chat improvements
The GIFs in chat are an okay idea but as the feature stands, there is a lot of room for improvement. I feel the following could help a lot with the chat experience when using GIFs:
At this time, streamers can only enable or disable the feature.
Allow the Streamer to change the setting of the cooldown. As of right now the default (and only available) cooldown is 30 seconds, which doesn't help at all with spam prevention.
Allow the Streamer to change the size of the GIFs by a certain amount of %. Right now their size is simply too large and it creates a jarring chat experience.
Allow the streamer to choose which categories of GIFs are allowed in their chat. Ex. the Streamer could choose to enable GIFs in the "Animals" category and/or disable GIFs in the "Politics" category.
Thank you for reading my feedback.
Atremis
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1TW1
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On mobile rn, gif button is blocking much of the emote tray, and causing a glitch which disables follower emotes.
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Coconutsales
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I would like to add that Gifs in chat (even large static images) can cause sensory issues for folks.
It would be a good idea to give the option for users to disable the gifs (apart from just making then static) as well.
In large enough stream chats, fast-moving chats make static gifs move by very fast, which usually take up most of a chat with just 1 message.
I made a ublock filter to disable them for anyone that comes by this before this is resolved.
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