UPDATE: We’re going to try a different approach to gifs/images in comments. From now on we’re going to limit gifs/embedded images to game threads and fanposts. This, I think, strikes a good balance between giving regular commenters the freedom to talk about the games how they want while also keeping things more commonly frequented by non-commenters tidier.
It’s not possible to limit the capability for embedded images/gifs to specific threads so it’s going to be up to the mods/community as a whole to enforce this. Gifs and embedded images posted in comment sections other than gamethreads and fanposts will be deleted. Thanks for your feedback.
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As some of you have already noticed, the comments on Fear the Fin no longer support embedding images and gifs. This is not, primarily, because I hate fun and those who partake in fun things, like gifs. This is an effort to make browsing on mobile devices a more pleasant experience for everyone.
If you’d like to link to a gif or image that takes the user off the site or embed a tweet (since those don’t autoplay) that’s perfectly fine. I don’t have any problems with gif usage, I’m just trying to save some bandwidth for those of us who view Fear the Fin predominantly on a mobile device.
Anyway I just wrote 100 words on gif usage, so welcome to 2016. What a time to be alive.