I posted in this format as a workaround. Or a middle ground for the exact interface or presentation style I find to be optimal.
The one which I personally enjoy the most. I really appreciate the fact that, in a world where I can only consume the smallest fraction of all human outputs out there, a screenshot lets me dive into the exact content and the exact format the original authors presented it in. Am I hooked? If so, I use my most valuable resource—my time—to engage further.
Apparently I definitely felt the hacky-ness of the format:
In fact, after posting, I began ideating essentially a browser extension that, if I managed to wireframe, I could present to aeharding (Alexander), the Voyager developer, and see if he could enhance the app to natively offer this feature. Or to an extension dev, or the Lemmy devs (though it’s resource intensive).
What feature? A toggle to enable first page / viewport screenshots of all linked articles; tap screenshot to open article.
The text preview seen at the top of my test screenshot does NOT do the article justice in my eyes, whereas the screenshot + link is almost everything I want. Lemmy is better for me like this but I’m ready to be convinced otherwise.
(I am cognizant of the fact screenshots are not the most accessible, which is why I pair them with alt text.)
May I ask for further feedback from you / your eight(+) upvoters on the specific negatives with my presentation / my idea?
[tap] Maybe…
I dislike the extra tap required to read the first handful of lines whereas y’all dislike the extra tap required to read the entire thing? 🤷♂️
Could be worse for some apps or if someone’s using RSS…
Oh and I should at least be marking that there’s more to read so folks don’t think the whole point is ONLY the screenshot.
Please put the link in the url section and copy paste some of the text as the body. It usually fetchs a title and picture on its own.
This is not the best format.
Thanks for this helpful feedback!
Giving this a try:
Tap for long thoughts
I posted in this format as a workaround. Or a middle ground for the exact interface or presentation style I find to be optimal.
The one which I personally enjoy the most. I really appreciate the fact that, in a world where I can only consume the smallest fraction of all human outputs out there, a screenshot lets me dive into the exact content and the exact format the original authors presented it in. Am I hooked? If so, I use my most valuable resource—my time—to engage further.
Apparently I definitely felt the hacky-ness of the format:
In fact, after posting, I began ideating essentially a browser extension that, if I managed to wireframe, I could present to aeharding (Alexander), the Voyager developer, and see if he could enhance the app to natively offer this feature. Or to an extension dev, or the Lemmy devs (though it’s resource intensive).
What feature? A toggle to enable first page / viewport screenshots of all linked articles; tap screenshot to open article.
The text preview seen at the top of my test screenshot does NOT do the article justice in my eyes, whereas the screenshot + link is almost everything I want. Lemmy is better for me like this but I’m ready to be convinced otherwise.
(I am cognizant of the fact screenshots are not the most accessible, which is why I pair them with alt text.)
May I ask for further feedback from you / your eight(+) upvoters on the specific negatives with my presentation / my idea?
[tap] Maybe…
I dislike the extra tap required to read the first handful of lines whereas y’all dislike the extra tap required to read the entire thing? 🤷♂️
Could be worse for some apps or if someone’s using RSS…
Oh and I should at least be marking that there’s more to read so folks don’t think the whole point is ONLY the screenshot.
Thank you Grimy!
Impression: That picture is useless compared to any of the actual points of the article. Also, it’s a cropped picture.
I don’t know what client you’re using but this post is a mess.
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Drat, various clients have disagreed about spoiler tags unfortunately 😕 but I thought we were past that!
Which are you using? These tags are compliant with web Lemmy I think:
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler hidden content :::How it looks:
Web - spoilers hidden
Web - spoiler (2/2) revealed
Voyager iOS - spoilers hidden
Voyager iOS - spoiler (2/2) revealed
Will share this with the dev of your app once I find out!
Edit: Never mind, I get it now. You weren’t making spoilers in the post above, you were just showing screenshots of the results.
Neither of those work in Boost, which supposedly fixed spoiler tags in the latest release.
Looks like Boost expects "spoiler" after the colons?
Yep
::: spoiler Looks like Boost expects "spoiler" after the colons? Yep :::Ay by posting with a cropped photo then editing in the link, achieved:
So Voyager could just add an option for longer image previews that coexist with links and I’d be happy?!
Edit: full photo was too ugly before I cropped: