Been a while since I last gave an update. I’ve been implementing a bunch of user requested features in the past and I think it’s finally time to implement a feature that I want to use.
This feature is the advanced screenshot capture tool. I like to save memes often and a lot of times memes require context or are made even better with comments. Sometimes memes are born from the comments themselves. Sometimes the title of the post is important to the meme. What ever the situation, it’s nice to have some flexibility and control over screenshots. Sometimes the comment you want to save is just too long. Sometimes images gets purged from the Lemmy instance so you don’t want to just bookmark it either. Or other times you just want to share a meme as an image instead of a link.
Enter advanced screenshots. This tool allows you to select exactly what within a post you want to save and generates an image of the selected items. This gives you a huge amount of flexibility in what you want to save and how it should be presented.
Check out a quick demo of the feature here: https://youtu.be/pTgRanjK5fE
Good work but I hate how often people share screenshots… Screenshotted Instagram posts, screenshotted memes, tweets…
I actually prefer screenshots to links when it comes to memes because there’s a lot less friction (clicking a link to viewing the content vs just seeing the content immediately). Also since people delete or edit comments/posts, screenshot is a much better way to preserve the state of something if that is the intention.
Sure, sometimes a comment is the important part, but I have a real beef with this whole screenshot culture.
Obviously technology isn’t helping, with web sites preventing saving of images and no good ways to preserve formatting when pasting information.
And then there’s the whole format issue when a shitty jpg is screenshotted, shared as png, then recompressed, screenshotted again… Ugh
Could you add an option to hide the bottom navigation buttons and move the items to the action button.
Also, list local communities of particular instances. Like from the about instance page, provide a list of local communities.
By the way, I have just started using the apps and loving it so far. Kudos.
I’ll add these to the roadmap. Thanks!
One more thing I noticed, when I change the layout “cards”, and click on images, a white flash appears. This is not an issue with “cards 2” and “cards 3”.
