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Could the UI and App devs please make it more clear that URL and image options when making a post are mutually exclusive? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Jerboa's not too bad, as the URL field is the same field the link to your uploaded image ends up overwriting, but I swear I see people making this mistake every fucking day. End up posting just an image when they wanted image + link.

Apologies, as I'm sure there's proper channels for this, and open source projects tend to not have the best UIs. Just shouting into the void.

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[-] nutomic@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago

The best channel is through the issue tracker, for example github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui. In practice Im not sure how the UI could be changed to make this clearer. Do you have an idea, or an example how another website handles this?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Better yet would be for the backend software to allow both an image and a link.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

That is possible

To get a link post with a custom thumbnail, you add the link and put the image in the thumbnail field.

To get an image post with a link, you make an image post and put the link in the post body.

[-] 9limmer@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

I think the developer is fairly active on the Lemmy.world instance if I remember correctly.

[-] vas@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

I confirm, I've personally edited a post 3 times over until a day later I've understood what's exactly happening: https://lemmy.ml/post/37434570

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