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Is there a way I can freeze the GIFs that some users have for their profile pictures?
They're lovely, but once you've appreciated it the first time it's quite distracting having the same gif looping over and over again in the corner of my eye whilst I'm trying to read the rest of the thread.
I know I can hide all Avatars for users, but I want to keep that on as profile pictures are much easier to glance at and identify people by than their names. Disabling them outright would seem like a bit of a nuclear option when I just don't want the GIFs bobbing around.

I don't know of a way to do it via Dakka settings, but you could look up browser add-ons and see if there's a gif disabler.

I do hate animated avatars as well and would love an option to force them static.

Don't hate the playa, hate the game!

You can usually globally disable animations in your browser but I've personally never seen it for only certain websites. It has unintended consequences for misreading posts that include animated emojis central to the meaning though as I found out and I turned it back on.