Note: This is not time critical or anything, Just something for the future once things calm down a little.

we've already got people posting gifs of dancing animu girls that take up your entire screen. Do not want. If they were limited in size to like 64x64px or something, or opt in, that'd be fine. I do not like having the giant images just pop up and break up the flow of comments.

You may now struggle in the session.

Wait this isn't struggly enough.

Anime is revisionist! gulag

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I actually agree with you, but then again I tend to place so many local Hexbear emojis in my posts that some people have said interrupts the flow of reading (and they're right, subjectively) that it may as well be 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats some good👌👌shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right there if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, we have a morbillion emotes already and I like that hexbear is very text-based.

    What I fear is that, in the mid- to long-term, this could result in cheap image responses drowning out actual discussion. They're more eye-catching and will naturally gain more attention, get more upvotes because they're quicker and easier to process for our monkey brains than text and in turn will be posted even more because we love our upvotes, don't we folks.

    This happens pretty consistently when image responses are an option, and not allowing that is something that reddit actually does right.

    • daisy
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      1 year ago

      Agreed. Inline images will turn Lemmy sites into little more than 4chan-with-accounts.

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
        hexagon
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        1 year ago

        I use RES and I guess that turns them off. I never realized Reddit did this. I've never seen it.

        • Awoo [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          RES does not turn them off. They show up on both old and new reddit.

          You've never seen it because people rarely use it. The use will settle here too.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
            hexagon
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            1 year ago

            : |

            Huh.

            If so that's pretty wild. I can't believe I just missed it.

            Though I've really only been on like five subs since 2022 and they're mostly art subs.

            • Awoo [she/her]
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              1 year ago

              It's the meme subs where you see it most. Generally communicating entirely through images is seen as boomer shit though so it doesn't happen that much. Reaction gif subs use it a lot as well as the stocks meme subs.

              • Frank [he/him, he/him]
                hexagon
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                1 year ago

                Fair enough I haven't been on any of those since pre-pandemic I had no idea.

                • Awoo [she/her]
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                  1 year ago

                  As a feature it has very little use outside of either memeing, using it to show graphs in effortposts, or using it to spice up certain posts with a bit of imagery. An inline image in the megathread topics would improve them, or you could put 2 or 3 peppered throughout an article.

                  As commenters? The main use is memeing and won't be seen all that much other than that. People will use it a whole lot to begin with because of the novelty though.

            • 187_Invitation [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              They've been collapsed automatically for me on old reddit since they've been announced.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      we have a morbillion emotes already

      Which is a bug more than a feature in its own right. I have to struggle to remember what the hell an emoji is called at least once a day. And scrolling through them is nearly impossible.

      Maybe we do images but we just limit them to 40x40 pixels or something.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          We do have the ability to add any tags to emotes. Having a directory would be nice. That's what the admins see, but I think the whole interface is locked behind the admin panel.

  • TheBeatles [any]
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    1 year ago

    gotta say, all the people posting gifs in this thread are doing an excellent job making your point for you

    • pooh [she/her, any]
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      1 year ago

      I think inline images are great, however I also think maybe they need a little work to prevent abuse, like a limit on the number of images in a post, limit on image size, etc. If done properly, it is a really cool and useful feature though.

      EDIT: Maybe another idea is to auto-collapse them in a spoiler-like way whenever they are posted.

      • TheBeatles [any]
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        1 year ago

        this 320x180 pixel gif is being stretched to take up the entire width of the post for some reason. good lord

  • makotech222 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Just pushed a patch a few minutes ago. Includes a max size of 400x400 for inline images for now, which i arbitrarily chose. Will talk more with team about more permanent fixes.

  • Comp4 [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Tell me this doesn't greatly improve the quality and vibe of the website. I will stand with the funny pictures until my last breath.

    Show

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    1 year ago

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  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    You can also make emotes take up the whole screen on mobile now lol. I promise that I won't overdo it outside of this post.

    Examples:

    hentai-free

    large-adult-son

    long-corbyn

    • pooh [she/her, any]
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      1 year ago

      Someone with better GIMP skills than me should make a super ultra long corbyn that extends several pages

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      1 year ago

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  • Comp4 [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I like the images; they make it feel more lively. Plus, I enjoy seeing more memes. Memes and fun stuff are the main reasons I visit this website, while news is the second reason.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I like them, but I wish they were opt-in. Show a thumbnail that's the same size as the other emotes, click it to expand the whole image - something like that. As it is if they catch on and everyone starts using them all the time I could see that being a big drain on bandwidth and that's not something I want to worry about on this site.

  • mar_k [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    PLEASE DON'T DISABLE they're super cool if implemented right. But definitely make an opt-out setting, like with avatars. And a size cap, seems like gifs (which translate into videos and don’t autoplay at least on my browser) are the biggest issues, they're never not taking up the whole screen even if they're low quality. If that can't work we can probably just disable mp4/gif and only allow jpg/png, right?

    To prevent the wrecker issue, you should have to have a certain number of points to use in-line images, I think that's how it already is with new users creating a post right?

    • W_Hexa_W
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      1 year ago

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