👀 Another sneak peek of a new feature for Mimi Uploader. You will soon be able to change the upload image size and quality!

Tweet with video of this in action

Upload images using Mimi. : samgrover.micro.blog

@samgrover 👍

@samgrover Fantastic 👍

Updated the post with a link to tweet of video of it in action.

@samgrover That looks like a great update! This will be very handy.

@samgrover Brilliant! This should be default when we upload photos with any service/app. Avoids an unnecessary step before uploading.

@manton doesn’t Micro.blog server process the image to trim it? Is it for size or just to remove the unnecessary metadata?

@amit @samgrover Micro.blog does some processing, but if the image is already small enough and doesn’t have location metadata, ideally Micro.blog would not touch the image. I’m going to look at this to make sure it’s working that way (or fix it).

@manton What if the image is large in size? Does it reduce its size? I am curious because I pause everytime while uploading the image in original size. If it isn’t resized, it will slow down the loading of pages.

@amit If it’s a JPEG and larger than 1800x1800, Micro.blog will always scale it down, no matter how it’s uploaded.

@manton And that’s where Mimi Uploader got the 1800 number for the “Optimum” default size :-)

@samgrover 💯

@samgrover Good stuff! I bought a copy of Mimi Uploader this morning.

@Cheri Thanks! Hope you enjoy using it :-)

@manton Re micro.blog always scaling down images greater than 1800x1800, does that mean that they’re (only) saved at the scaled down resolution?

Or just that micro.blog always scales them down when displaying them in posts but the original image is still theoretically there in the uploads section? Thanks!

@adammedcalf For JPEGs it always scales them down and does not store the original, except for some formats like PNG and GIF. The assumption is that you’ll have the original on your own device if you need it.

@samgrover Wonderful. I’m installing the TestFlight version now.

@samgrover Does the TestFlight version include the Alt Text feature? If so, I can’t find it.

@crossingthethreshold No. I’m still working on that. Probably in about a month as it will also require iOS 16.

@samgrover Thank you for the clarification.

@samgrover Does Mimi have a URL scheme for use worh Drafts, or Shortcuts support?

@jmreekes Keep me in mind if you do develop these shortcuts 😊 @samgrover

@jmreekes same ;)

@Gaby Of course

@jmreekes And me!!!!!!

@jmreekes No, but I can look into it. What are you looking to do specifically?

@samgrover Automating the export of the markdown or HTML links to the clipboard automatically. So from Drafts, run an action which will open Mimi, select and upload the photos, and copy the markdown or HTML to the clipboard, and then paste the links

@samgrover An improvement over this. www.icloud.com/shortcuts…

@samgrover The Shortcut link is for uploading to Blot.im but hopefully gives you an idea. I’ve got shortcuts for uploading to M.b but it only generates one link

@jmreekes I see. That would need support for multiple batches uploading simultaneously, because an upload could be happening when the shortcut fires. Currently mimi only works with one batch at a time. That’s something that I want to add at some point to support both Shortcuts and Share Screen. But maybe there is a simpler shortcut I can implement to help with that before then. Let me mull it over.

@manton I haven’t checked recently but does micro.blog still increase the file size or have that bug been fixed?

@jemostrom It doesn’t usually increase the size, but it does recompress most files so if they were very small to start with, they might end up bigger. I still plan to change that but it hasn’t changed yet.

@samgrover Cool. Thanks!!!