>>33I actually like the corrupted .gif ghosts, and consider them a happy accident of whatever concoction of thumbnail conversion settings I input.
I'd love for this feature to be a toggle, but, unfortunately, it seems an either/or situation in vichan. For anything simple to implement, at least. I've set thumbnails to enforced .png for now and that'll have the desired effect of animating only on expansion.
Stickers won't be effected by any of this, since they're the full images every time.
.gifs are very central to Homestuck in my mind, so I play pretty loose with them…
CSS gimmicks can't freeze .gifs entirely, but I'll work on a theme with a low contrast filter.
In the meantime, 'FAQU' hides file uploads, and 'Yayuyo' enforces a b/w filter on all images, do either of those help with the motion aversion any?