I do agree, this is going too far maybe. A couple days ago I opened an article on medium with 20 gifs. I stopped loading at the third one, at that moment my browser already downloaded 70mb. Way too much. I tried to mitigate that in my article by carefully optimizing the gifs but still. I see your point :)
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I don't think that's necessary, but maybe dev.to could add a button to hide looping gifs. This is a good idea for all websites.
I do agree, this is going too far maybe. A couple days ago I opened an article on medium with 20 gifs. I stopped loading at the third one, at that moment my browser already downloaded 70mb. Way too much. I tried to mitigate that in my article by carefully optimizing the gifs but still. I see your point :)