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GIFs
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 8 years (2014–2021), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Long GIFs freeze without buffering cue and cannot be scrubbedUnreviewed
20142026- Large GIFs autoplay and perform badly, hurting page responsiveness2021-12-01
- Long GIFs freeze with no buffering cue and can't be skipped or scrubbed2020-05-17
- Can't pause GIFs, so they keep flashing while reading2020-05-17
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Large GIFs autoplay and perform badly, hurting page responsiveness2021-12-01
- Long GIFs freeze with no buffering cue and can't be skipped or scrubbed2020-05-17
- Can't pause GIFs, so they keep flashing while reading2020-05-17
- Long GIF videos are painful to wait on as they restart, lacking pause and seek controls2019-05-31
- Looping animations distract from reading the article text2016-11-03
- Miss a step and must wait for the whole GIF to loop again2015-07-07
- GIFs load slowly with no indication, and playback cannot be controlled by the viewer2014-06-20