@Gabz I dig it :-) similar vibe here....(just realized I cannot share a photo in a reply...just me?). What is the app second from the left?

@aa Yeah, not being able to post photos as replies is annoying.

@Gabz ah, nice, thank you!

@yorrike where do we put feature requests? cc: @manton

@aa @yorrike No photos on replies started as a technical question (where do the photos get hosted?) but has evolved into a design decision because I think it makes conversations cleaner and not overrun with memes. It's something we should reevaluate regularly to make sure it's still a good fit. (There are good uses, like screenshots.)

@bix 👍

@manton @aa @yorrike @bix Yesterday, @jeannie linked to this article in The Atlantic from 2017, which I think is instructive on this very point—quoting the first paragraph:

Here’s a little parable. A friend of mine was so enamored of Google Reader that he built a clone when it died. It was just like the original, except that you could add pictures to your posts, and you could Like comments. The original Reader was dominated by conversation, much of it thoughtful and earnest. The clone was dominated by GIFs and people trying to be funny.

I agree there are valid uses for photos-in-replies, but I appreciate the fact that it is hard to do so on Micro.blog (though not impossible), so that the friction keeps my Timeline free of memes and animated GIFs.

@manton @aa @yorrike Whilst this requires use of the website rather than the app, I've generally just added a photo to the ‘Uploads' section then linked to it in my reply.

@smokey @manton @aa @yorrike @bix @jeannie i get it, and understand the design philosophy as-well. The easy thing for me to do in the case where this just came up was to attach a photo. The more “difficult” thing was to use words. Keep it simple and challenge us to use more words. We all benefit by staying off of an otherwise slippery slope.

@smokey @jeannie Oh, I missed that article. Thanks for linking it again.

@yorrike @aa To include a photo in a reply, upload it somewhere (your microblog) and then either:

• Link to it like you’d link to any other URL on the web (best for anything that isn’t small, since it will just be a link), or
  
• Use Markdown image syntax to embed it inline (best for small images, because there’s no way to control height/width or scale down images using this syntax)

@manton I hadn’t seen it, either, and I was surprised to realize it was from 2017. It must have flown under the radar then—or we were all too busy dealing with the chaos of the first 100 days—in a way that I don’t think it would today. I suppose it would have been some nice validation for you as you put the finishing touches on the rollout to Kickstarter backers back then, though :-)

@smokey @yorrike thank you :-)

@bix Don’t worry; there’s a very, very good chance that is the only image in a reply you’ll see this year :-)