Comments with images tend to take up a lot of screen space, and usually they're not very constructive in the first place, so it'd be nice if there was an option to collapse them, and even to hide them by default.

Thoughts?

Comments with images tend to take up a lot of screen space, and usually they're not very constructive in the first place

I seem to recall such being the case on Lemmy, which is why I was rather bowled over when I got on to PF and discovered how very maximised the images are. Good for mobile I guess, but kind of distracting for desktop.

So yeah, I certainly wouldn't mind if images were minimized / hidden depending on user setting. It would allow me more flexibility in how I lay out my posts, for starters.

I'm not seeing a lot of images in comments. Can you link me to some examples?

You can hide comment images by using this custom css:

.comment_body img { display: none; }

im always up for more options. I don't see using it currently but I can see what you mean and totally might want to turn it off in future.

I've just tweaked PieFed to make the images in comments display the same size they do in Lemmy.