Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics
AlDente@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoI actually like it better this way because the full comic can be viewed and zoomed in on in app (Voyager in my case). I’ve seen these posted with the source page as the post link and I can’t click on the image to zoom in without being pulled out of app with a wait for the web page to load. Also, when entering the post to see the comments, the thumbnail is so small when the source page is linked, making the comic unreadable. With an image alone, the full comic is viewable beside the comments. Is it different for you?
who@feddit.org 3 days ago
The thing is, with xkcd, the image alone is not the full comic. Part of the comic is the hover text, which you don’t get with the image alone.
Wxfisch@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The bot adds the alt text to the post, so no need to head to the site to see the entire comic.
aeharding@vger.social 2 days ago
Are you the bot author? If so have you considered using Lemmys alt text field directly? This would display the text with the image is some clients like voyager. It would also federate to Mastodon (post body doesn’t federate). You could also keep the text in the post body and do it both places :)
Deebster@infosec.pub 11 hours ago
I had tried that before (when posting manually) but didn’t think it worked very well. I’ve edited it in to this post. to test.
It’s also not technically the alt text, it’s the title text, but I’m not sure many people care about the distinction.
Wxfisch@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I am not, that appears to be deebster@programming.dev
who@feddit.org 3 days ago
That splits the comic between two separate screens, and requires multiple steps (and page loads) to read it.
It’s not as good as linking to the whole comic in one place.
Wxfisch@lemmy.world 3 days ago
As has been pointed out though on non-web clients it’s much more disruptive to link to the webpage instead of how the bot works now. I’m not sure what the split is between web and mobile users but I’d hazard a guess there’s appreciably more mobile client users.
I’m also not sure why it would require more loads on web, if you open a post (as you have to do regardless) does it not show the image with text below it anyways?
AlDente@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I guess this is going to come down to desktop vs mobile preference. On mobile this shows everything on one page with no additional loading. Alternatively, using the source page requires multiple steps and page loads for mobile users, who may also need to amend the link to see the hover text.
arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
If you are on the standard lemmy ui:
AlDente@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Ah, thanks for clarifying. I never knew about the hover text. I just viewed the source page on my desktop browser and now I see it. However, is this text even viewable on mobile, when you don’t have a cursor to hover?
who@feddit.org 3 days ago
The mobile browsers I’ve used let you long-press the image to see the hover text.
If yours doesn’t, you can always prepend
m.to the domain name, like this: m.xkcd.com/3090/AlDente@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Thanks for the tip!