Enough with the GIF spam: It's time for a "Disable" toggle.

I've been a longtime user and love the platform, but I'm finding it genuinely difficult to browse and engage due to the sheer volume of GIFs, especially in comments. It feels like every other thread is drowning in them, and frankly, it's making the experience more noisy than navigable.

Just to be clear: I'm absolutely not trying to call out the individual whose GIF appears in the screenshot I'm adding. I'm only using it to illustrate the scale of the problem—as you can see, a single GIF comment completely swallows the screen of my iPhone 16 Pro Max. When the visual noise is so loud that it literally pushes the dialogue off the screen, the platform has a serious readability problem.

My issue isn't with any single GIF or user, but with the overall platform behavior and the lack of control.

This "GIF spam" takes up so much screen real estate, especially on mobile, and often adds little to the actual discussion. It turns comment sections into scrolling walls of repeating animations, making it hard to focus on text-based contributions.

What would vastly improve the experience:

• Platform-Wide GIF Toggle (iOS, Android, Desktop): We need an option to disable GIFs entirely across the platform. Whether I'm on mobile or desktop, I want the choice to opt for a static, text-focused experience.

• Community-Level GIF Control: Just like Reddit allows subreddits to disable GIFs in comments, Digg should empower community managers to toggle GIF posting on or off for their specific communities. This would allow for curated spaces that prioritize text-based contributions over reaction loops.

Giving users and community managers more control over visual noise would significantly improve the browsing experience for many of us who are feeling overwhelmed by the current situation.