Hey people who have flashing gifs in their sigs...
Hi, I'm Rosey, your friendly neighborhood person who is very sensitive to flashing things.
So as I said I have a hard time looking at flashing gifs and I'm sure I'm not the only person who has this issue as well. Flashing gifs give me extreme migraines that can last for a day or two at a time and with other people it can potentially cause even more serious issues such as seizures.
For the sake of people's health if it's not to much to ask to give warnings or possibly remove these gifs. This place should be safe for all users. :)
Thanks!
(Side note: Last time I checked there was no way to turn off signatures in posts. I would do that but I can't.)
Good luck with that. People are quite stubborn about their signatures around here and don't seem to care about any inconvenience they may cause for others.
What you might want to try is looking up how to stop gifs from playing in your browser. It is possible if you tweak certain settings or use an extension
What might also be nice for you are those extensions that pause gifs for you. In that way, you don't have to worry about accidentally stumbling upon annoying flashy gifs. The only downside is that /all/ gifs are paused.
This is a nice one maybe. It's for Chrome though, but most browsers have equivalent stuffs.
Ty for finding that!
I care. I really do care....
The GIFs in my signature are pretty slow.... By "flashing" you mean literally right? Or do you mean any GIF really fast in general? (Sorry for the stu.pid question...) I did some major shortening of my siggy yesterday and removed a good many things, but if the GIFs I still have bother you I can remove them. :)
Like flashing as in flashing. Like, yknow that rainbow smiley face on DA. Usually most gifs people posts (like the stamps) I don't usually see anything with them that causes an issue.
I found an extension that disables gifs until you mouse over them. Thanks everyone for the suggestions!
SoD community does it again!! what an awesome group of people!
Oh okie! Sorry, I was just trying to figure out what the entirety of the problem was. X3
Awesome!! I hope it works out well for ya! :D
Ok, I removed mine.
I changed the top one in my sig, is the on right below it fine?
Is my signature free from flashy gifs?
Second column on left side top one where it says electronic techno dance. I'd probably think about slowing it down or changing it.
Being able to turn off images in signatures (or just outright turn off signatures) would have actually been a great idea for a multitude of reasons, now that you mention it. Regardless, I'll make sure that if I ever do put a gif in my sig, it won't be some crazy flashing thing.
I don't know what host the forum runs on so idk if it's possible to add that feature but yeah it would be pretty helpful. Not to mention it would cut down on forum lag.
No flashy sigs here, but I'll put a warning in the beginning of my signature about flashy gifs if you would liike me to. I understand where you're coming from, some people do get seizures and migraines from flashy things. I'm not one of those people, but for your sake I'll try to refrain from using flashy gifs. :)
Most people's signatures don't have a whole lot of flashing gifs but there are a few i've seen that do. By flashing I mean those really fast rainbow ones or ones that have two colors that switch back and forth very fast. I've only seen a few of those but I thought I'd bring it to attention anyways.
By the way if anyone needs to stop gifs from playing I installed THIS extension and it works pretty well.
Little badge people can put in their sigs so you can look at them without getting ill. :)
Mind if I use that picture for my siggy? I'll credit you for providing it :)
The worst GIF i have in my signature is Ron Weasley holding a Mundrake with a disgusted look on his face. But that's it. I don't think it qualifies.
My favorite gif! Lol! XD
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I use Opera so I'll see if I can find something from their extensions but thanks for the suggestion!