[unwttng]

OP here - I'm seeing 50/50 support for the gifs. I'm keepin my gifs. I like the idea of adding, and will probably implement, a toggle for all extraneous gifs. I love that most of the commentary about this article is about the gifs. Gifs.

[taco_emoji]

I wouldn't mind the GIFs if they were A. smaller (most of them take up a good 2/3rds of the height of my viewport at 1600x900) and B. could be paused. They're humorous at first, but then they're distracting as I'm trying to read the stuff around them.

[bennyelv]

Personally I didn't mind the content of the gifs, it was the fact that they made it difficult to keep track of where you were in the text around them as I tried to read it.

Perhaps some people are less susceptible to this than others.

[mdevere]

the gifs are funny. hacker news is just a bunch of anoraks.