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! 
Also, side effect of how emotes are treated like inline images now, touch the cat:
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I know it's an UlyssesT comment because nobody else uses that emote.this is why we love you and i would be upset if you stopped
dont make it a habit with giant screenwide anime gifs though thanks
Large images can be collapsed under a spoiler, and it is good etiquette to do this in threads which aren't already full of large images.
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.
Agreed. Inline images will turn Lemmy sites into little more than 4chan-with-accounts.
I use RES and I guess that turns them off. I never realized Reddit did this. I've never seen it.
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.
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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.
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.
Fair enough I haven't been on any of those since pre-pandemic I had no idea.
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.
They've been collapsed automatically for me on old reddit since they've been announced.
more subreddit dependent, there were a few i used that used them a lot and it was annoying
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.
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.
gotta say, all the people posting gifs in this thread are doing an excellent job making your point for you
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.
this 320x180 pixel gif is being stretched to take up the entire width of the post for some reason. good lord
I'd prefer not to have it. If it could be made a button you have to click that'd be good, or a small preview. And while the dancing cat isn't that obnoxious the 1080p dancing anime girls are.
the 1080p dancing anime girls are.
Agreed, they should be dancing anime boys
I just don't get why the images show up at such a massive relative size.
Are people not doing that on purpose? Are they posting at native resolution or something?
everything i've posted in this thread was just grabbed off of tenor. haven't edited them at all
New Hexbear isn't playing nice with gifs or webms. If you post webP it seems to work ok and as intended, like this:
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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.
Thank you.
But also, go fuck yourself. THIS IS A STRUGGLE SESSION, LET US ROLL AROUND IN THE MUD FOR A WHILE BEFORE QUICK FIXING, THX
Thank you! Sorry for making extra work so soon after the migration.
the wrecker abuse bit is actually what worries me the most tbh
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.
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Someone with better GIMP skills than me should make a super ultra long corbyn that extends several pages
You can use two spaces at the end of a line and no empty line between to put them next to each other.
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"This giant Corbyn will devour us all!" jumps into the Thames
She's spent the longest time waiting for her turn
Boom roasted fucking gottem
It's an easier way to share images while assuring that people actually see them. Should def be an option to have them be small previews that one can click
it would be extremely funny to crash all of lemmy doing this again
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?
An opt out setting which just turns it into an "[Image]" hyperlink is a good idea
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.
If they were collapsible and you could have them collapsed by default that would be good too
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