Hello users of Hexbear, there have been many changes and some drama the past few months.
The recent changes we've been making have been an attempt to create a more safe and welcoming environment for many demographics that have been overlooked in the past.
For any of our comrades that have been unintentionally hurt in this process, we apologise and hope to find a solution that accommodates as many people as possible while still meeting the needs of the marginalised groups who need a space like this the most.
The intent of this post is to provide a space for all users to air grievances with regard to the site. As well as provide suggestions for specific things that could be changed to address your grievance. Comments insulting the mod team or those without a specific means to address your problem may be removed. No commenter will be sitebanned, unless it clearly breaks the code of conduct.
Don't know about the website itself but on the app jerboa you can disable gifs auto playing
Hey that's true I never noticed it applied to avis as well! Thanks. :) If only I could apply this to the whole internet.
In the old days (Netscape Navigator) you could press
control/cmd+.to stop animations on a page. This feature has been taken away from modern web browsers and there is no way to prevent animations from loading/playing that I have found. I tried to write a user style, find a browser extension, whatever, but it's impossible as far as I can tell. Especially if you would like to be able to selectively play some animations on an opt-in basis.Although I did just now have a flash of brilliance and figure out a solution that appears works in this context only. Create a ublock origin rule for the specific user avis that have animations. Since there isn't that many of them it shouldn't be too much trouble to do it manually.
In a round about way, complaining has worked.
Looked into it a little bit, but could using something like
||https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/*.gif$imagwork? Haven't used ublock in a while so unsure if it would work. Would also disable all gods tho not just avatars