Suggestion is to allow users to pause animations for the newly rolled out trainer sprites. There are new custom avatars that have gifs, and while they are cool to see, I think having the ability to disable animations for custom avatars would be ideal for two reasons. One is to reduce motion for accessibility reasons (we have this functionality for Pokemon sprites), and two would be because it's somewhat distracting to look at. If implemented I'm hoping we can allow the trainer sprite to be paused individually instead of grouping it into a disable animations functionality. Thank you!
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Rejected Allow users to disable animated trainer sprites
- Thread starter tko
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This comes down to not being worth the time. We’re not planning to expand the use of animated avatars at all at this time, so there’s not much of a point compared to the time required to implement. Perhaps worth revisiting if we change this policy, but at the moment we do not plan on doing so.
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