Official announcements and happiness!
Imageless view
I don't care how, what, why, or any of the above—compressed or not—but I desperately want an image-free view available.
Main uses:
- Work - At work, there is no way I want even the innocuous images jumping out of my screen, even on breaks.
- Sparing my eyes - I follow comms that promote other comms with images I do NOT want to see. I don't want to quit following those comms, I just don't want to see their images.
- Relaxation - I have ASD and get overstimulated easily. Having an almost text-only version was the best thing that ever happened to me.
- Loading - load time is much better on mobile and less likely to crash without images
Anyone else want to chime in with reasons they really want an image-free option? I've pretty much mentioned this all in chat, but it was suggested that we get a post with actual discussion going so here it is.




Btw nonniemas, I don't want you to think I'm ignoring you and just answering someone else's issue in this thread. I'm kinda intentionally sitting back and listening to input about this one, so I can better discuss it with other staff later. 💚
Not a problem! I kind of guessed as much. :D
I appreciate the new compressed view as a way to preview images without having to expand posts to a size where they take up a lot of screen-estate, but would definitely welcome a text-only view in addition. I find the images constantly distract my eye from the text, and it's worse when many of them are just post type icons that aren't adding anything of value.
So in general I just prefer the cleaner experience of pure text and find I'm much less likely to miss things reading that way. (I've found that since Twitter first introduced in-line images I'm much more likely to zone out and miss tweets I actually want to read because my brain parses "thing with image" as "probably an ad, ignore it and keep skimming till you reach the actual content".)
My ideal would be to have a text-only view that I would use as default, and also be able to switch to the current compressed view when I occasionally want to see a quick image preview without having to go all the way over to the full-sized regular view that takes up so much space. So if it's feasible to have all three view options, I would love that.
I too would like an image-less view! I've hacked it by using an external style thingit (which works on mobile if you're using firefox) but I'd rather not have to rely on an external add-on to do this.
Reasons I want this:
I know there are a ton of reasons for wanting this. Even if it doesn't necessarily apply to me I am all for it if it is possible. :)
Yes please! I sometimes use a screen reader (for a non-vision-related issue), so please give me an image free option (or, of course
forceencourage people to supply alt-text. (Or both!))You can do
~force~to get those strikethroughs, by the way. :)Good to know!
edits comment above
The HTML for that one kinda rolls off my fingers. I use it a lot for snarkery.
We need this option.
Alt text or placeholders for images would be fine.
I used to only have a mobile connection to the Internet. Images would take up a surprisingly large amount of my small data cap. And they make pages take longer to load. A placeholder can preserve page layout, and be much quicker to load.
I like the new compressed view, but agree that an image free view would be appreciated as well, especially when I'm on mobile.
I would like a clean no image option (possibly title & tags only?)--it's much faster, and allows me to properly skim through things to figure out if I'm interested in them.
I would love an image-free view, especially when using the mobile app. I'm usually on wifi, so I'm not all that worried about data usage, but I'd rather dedicate the screen real estate to text.
Also, sometimes images feel like shouting and it would be nice to turn the volume down. :)
So much this for my personal mobile viewing.
I want this also, especially if it will eliminate animated gifs. As I posted elsewhere, moving images can sometimes trigger seizures and it's not as simple (for me) as just strobe or flashing effects, any repetitive motion can do it (quickly zooming in and out is really bad for me). My ad blocker doesn't catch them all.