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Removing this one seems sane. I've done so.

In terms of prevention, it's easy to filter out embedded gifs, but this is perhaps too wide a net - gifs have plenty of non-animated uses.

We could detect on the server whether a gif in this stream is animated, but it'll take a bit more work. Here is some PHP code: http://it.php.net/manual/en/function.imagecreatefromgif.php#59787 It's also possible to do it in the browser: https://github.com/mailcharts/animated-gif-detector Let me know if you want me to do it.

Ban all the gifs!!! Ban all the gifs!!!!

<takes a deep breath>

Okay -- I can see the argument for not instituting an outright ban on animated gifs on the front page news feed. Let's see if this problem recurs, and if it does, we can tackle the wider question then.

In the meantime, thanks for your quick work on this Boone.