Subj : Re: JPG/Video on bulletin boards..
To   : paulie420
From : Warpslide
Date : Mon Jul 20 2020 16:57:14

On 18 Jul 2020, paulie420 said the following...

Hmm, my previous reply didn't seem to come through, let's try this again from
Mystic...

 pa> If you could display graphical files to users natively, would you want
 pa> to?
  
I think images could come in handy, the trouble would be how to distribute
them.  I think the BBS community could steal a page from Reddit's (pre
redesign) book and use third party image hosts rather then attaching or
embedding the image in the message:

[Funny Image](https://i.imgur.com/lr8eTMh.jpeg)

We could also use markdown to introduce some text formatting such as *italic*
or **bold** text.

This way messages are still legible on yesterday/today's BBSes while newer
readers would be able to display images in line.

 pa> If you could display videos to user natively, would yo want to?

I personally wouldn't want videos here, though some may see the value in it.

But for the love of everything holy & sacred they should never ever be
auto-playing.  Also if I ever started seeing pre-roll ads I'd probably flip my
desk.

Jay

.... I'm NOT addicted.  I just use the modem all the time.

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