Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics

• Wxfisch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The bot adds the alt text to the post, so no need to head to the site to see the entire comic.

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  • aeharding@vger.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 :)

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    • Wxfisch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I am not, that appears to be deebster@programming.dev

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    • Deebster@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • aeharding@vger.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Cool :)

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  • who@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Wxfisch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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    • AlDente@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • who@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I guess this is going to come down to desktop vs mobile preference.

        Maybe so. In that case, allow me to suggest linking to the mobile site:

        m.xkcd.com/3090/

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    • arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you are on the standard lemmy ui:

      • Click on the post, not the image source
      • Expand the image by clicking on it
      • You can now see the comic and alt text in one place

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      • who@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Still not equivalent, since it still requires multiple steps, and doesn’t work with privacy settings that forbid off-site images.

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• AlDente@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • who@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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/

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    • AlDente@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks for the tip!

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