Subj : Re: JPG/Video on bulletin boards..
To   : Warpslide
From : paulie420
Date : Mon Jul 20 2020 18:14:02

On 20 Jul 2020, Warpslide said the following...
 
 Wa> On 18 Jul 2020, paulie420 said the following...
 Wa> 
 Wa> Hmm, my previous reply didn't seem to come through, let's try this again
 Wa> from Mystic...
 Wa> 
 Wa>  pa> If you could display graphical files to users natively, would you wan
 Wa>  pa> to?
 Wa>   
 Wa> I think images could come in handy, the trouble would be how to
 Wa> distribute them.  I think the BBS community could steal a page from
 Wa> Reddit's (pre redesign) book and use third party image hosts rather then
 Wa> attaching or embedding the image in the message:
 Wa> 
 Wa> [Funny Image](https://i.imgur.com/lr8eTMh.jpeg)
 Wa> 
 Wa> We could also use markdown to introduce some text formatting such as
 Wa> *italic* or **bold** text.
 Wa> 
 Wa> This way messages are still legible on yesterday/today's BBSes while
 Wa> newer readers would be able to display images in line.
 Wa> 
 Wa>  pa> If you could display videos to user natively, would yo want to?
 Wa> 
 Wa> I personally wouldn't want videos here, though some may see the value in
 Wa> it.
 Wa> 
 Wa> But for the love of everything holy & sacred they should never ever be
 Wa> auto-playing.  Also if I ever started seeing pre-roll ads I'd probably
 Wa> flip my desk.

Valid points you make; and I agree, if I saw auto playing videos I'd flip
too...

Now I KNOW that some folks will say its already like this, but I prefer like
a hyperlink sort of... you see a link, click it, and a 3rd application shows
the JPG or plays the video... and I know some will SAY that works today; but
I use syncterm and arch linux, and I cant even COPY and paste a link most of
the times... it just doesn't work WELL.

I wish you could make one click; and a link would just open... furthermore, I
wish it were one click and link was closed; I just think that we miss out on
a lot for lack of MORE than simple text. Like a Raspberry Pi Project, or BBS
howto... you almost NEED a picture or three, a video here and there... I wish
it were implemented better... and easy; without breaking the simple BBSes
that we already love.

Nor changing them...



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