I blocked all GIFs in uBlock Origin to save bandwidth (an exception filter at the bottom of this post):
.gif$domain
Surprisingly the Hacker News creates the comment layout with GIF images (and of the visible icons, the vote arrows are GIFs) — why this format specifically continues to be used for HN?
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👤 mattl Accepted Answer ✓
What's wrong with the icons being GIFs?
👤 zaphar
HN has had the same layout and look for a very long time. It works and there has been no need to change it. Keeping up with trends is usually not a good reason to change something that is working perfectly for it's intended use case.