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Check out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/superstop/ so you can pause all gifs on pages like this.

Especially on a portrait screen (great for reading!) where you can't really scroll away from them.

Here, have a bookmarklet I wrote to hide them so I could read articles like this:

javascript:(function (){var x = document.getElementsByTagName("img");for (i = 0; i < x.length; i++){x[i].setAttribute("src","");}}());

Agreed. I find I have to scroll them out of view to be able to read the text.

It's supposed to be distracting, but moodlifting, seeing the post exposes essentially negative oppoinions. Of course they are devoid of content.

I agree. A lot of times I'm just perusing HN for a few minutes as a break; I'm not looking for heavy reading. Setting up the content like this gives me a quick little chuckle in-between paragraphs and I move to the next. Rather than oh god this is too long - next link.

I've spent an hour reading a 20,000 word article. Don't go down the same path I did!

Was about to post the exact same thing.

I really want to read the article but it's a struggle with the gifs

3 images is not unreasonable for an article, but I do agree they felt a bit irrelevant.