Collapse images, website info, and other expandos
Basically the same functionality as /collapse on Slack. This allows for in-line images and website info to show in chat for a user but lets you hide away large, flashy, or NSFW images without disabling image display entirely.
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several other feedback items that would also be fixed by this capability
- 3 months ago https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048139231-Minimizing-Gif-Pictures
- 3 months ago https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048067691-Delete-image-or-text
- 6 months ago https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360043437051-Collapsible-Gifs
- 6 months ago https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360034220311-Minimize-button-for-images-video
- 1 year ago https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360031102772-Collapsible-Previews
and a couple more that this might be kind-of close to fixing
- 3 months ago https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360048307292-Option-to-Turn-on-Spoiler-for-All-Images
- 5 months ago https://support.discordapp.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360045988871-Hiding-preview-for-uploaded-embedded-images32 -
This would be amazing - also having the ability to collapse by default (not a Slack option) would be pretty awesome!
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This is not the same as pasting in like <https://google.com> versus https://google.com
the <link> one is just disabling the preview on that image (maybe "code" or something? not sure)
but it still expands any generic image/video that is pasted in, even with preview. (assuming the channel allows it)Discord
Versus Slack. Where it allows you to paste in a link/image, and depending on your settings it may auto-expand the preview, or leave it collapsed.
But whichever way it comes in at first, there is an arrow to expand/collapse it. and commands /expand and /collapse let you change all the images/previews at once .
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I use discord as one of my main chat clients and it's always visible on my screen. It would be really nice to have this functionality, especially on videos and gifs that loop. It's very distracting to have a looping video on the screen that I can't stop.
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+1
This has been my most missed feature when migrating from Slack to Discord
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Voted! How is this not a thing yet! over a year old now?!
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My group is evaluating moving from Slack to Discord, and the inability to collapse gifs/pictures/etc is a pretty major disadvantage
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+1
I'm sick of lewd and weird individuals leaving strange images in channels I frequent. Discord, what's the hold up on this 2 year old request? Come on...7 -
@narpt Not pictured: the YEARS it was also posted on the old feedback site.
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Yes please make this a thing...we need it desperately.
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I clicked violently in support of this
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Are we making a push to rival Atlassian? I thought they were the kings of trivial implementations sitting stagnant forever....
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+1
This needs to be REQUIRED for accessibility. People adversely affected by flashing colors can be harmed by animated gifs and images.
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We're 3 years in and no implementation yet? How is this not a priority for the Discord development team when there are so many reasons to make it so, from accessibility to business use cases? I use Slack and Discord together daily and I'm literally shocked to see this is not a feature in Discord yet. It's incredibly frustrating for all of the reasons posted here previously, including the distraction of animated GIFs during a conversation. Yes, I want to see the GIF. No, I do not want to see the GIF loop for hours in my peripheral while I'm trying to get work done.
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This would be a big quality of life improvement.
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Being a part of a big group that has a bunch of great folks is wonderful, but there are always a few who don't seem to think outside thier own situations and post content that is either NSFW or inappropriate for children. While my situation probably shouldn't impede others, I would like a bit more control as to what is directly shown onscreen. Being able to collapse images and or comments would be a very welcome feature.
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+1
Agreed. A must-fix, please. Honestly, I was going to make a suggestion to have the ability to disable gifs altogether in server settings because they annoy the crap out of me, but this is obviously the more viable and logical option.
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How has this not been added yet? It's just some js/css!
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we use Discord in the company i work for, i work remotely and i need to be able to hide images for several reasons (nsfw, simple disturbance)
when we switched from Slack to Discord i was surprised to discover that this feature wasn't implemented4 -
This is a basic QOL feature. Absolutely pathetic product management.
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+1, +2, +as many as possible pretty pretty please
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It is not in Nitro and I have decided to not renew my yearly nitro subscription due to the lack of attention by Discord on this. It's not acceptable IMHO.
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I’m also planning to not renew my Nitro. I had just emailed support about this exact feature, and they immediately pointed me to this feedback forum and said to find and upvote the request. Surprise, I found this THREE YEARS OLD request. This isn’t some fancy request that’s going to draw lots of upvotes, nor is it something that should need to go through this process. It’s a super basic QOL necessity that any Junior dev could quickly implement.
What on earth is our Nitro money going towards if they don’t have the dev capacity to implement this without it getting some magic number of upvotes? Who wants to use some group/team chat app where previews/embeds take up such a large amount of space, where flashy gifs can annoy you until they’re scrolled away, and where you have to worry about leaving nsfw images on your display?
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I'm under the impression that because Discord is less targeted at companies than to other communities (gaming, etc.), the developers simply don't care about implementing such a feature.
Still, this is a basic feature that any user in any community could potentially need one day or another, even users that don't use Discord for working.
I've heard that more and more companies use Discord. So maybe this feature will eventually see the light of day.
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In addition, Slack has a setting that forces minimization of embeds (pics, gifs, previews, etc) by default for the user client-side. I'd love for that to be implemented on Discord as well.
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+1
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lots of people i spoke with confirm that they miss this "ability to collapse images" feature!
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Huge, huge, huge need!
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Came here to ask for the same thing. It's extremely simple to implement so I am shocked it's not available.
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+1 ! Yeah i use Discord at work and the need to hide gif or image if they are NSFW should be a no brainer
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