Dear link-posting fucks

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Contextualizing hyperlinks outside of the computer: an essay.

[The Johnny]

And it actually works in FB because it automatically generates a preview of given link.

Faust, why you no code previews for links? Make everyone's life easier.

For SMF the options are embedded youtube videos in posts (not a good idea) or links. I could look into a mod for previews but I'm not going to try coding that from scratch, it would end up on the bottom of a to-do list that is already a mile long.

I was joking, its a ridiculous and out of the way premise to fix something that is just a matter of writing 2 lines per link to explain why should anyone care or watch it.

[Faust]

And it actually works in FB because it automatically generates a preview of given link.

Faust, why you no code previews for links? Make everyone's life easier.

For SMF the options are embedded youtube videos in posts (not a good idea) or links. I could look into a mod for previews but I'm not going to try coding that from scratch, it would end up on the bottom of a to-do list that is already a mile long.

I was joking, its a ridiculous and out of the way premise to fix something that is just a matter of writing 2 lines per link to explain why should anyone care or watch it.

Apologies, generally when requests come my way they are meant genuinely and some have been FAR FAR more ridiculous.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Contextualizing hyperlinks outside of the computer: an essay.

[Roly Poly Oly-Garch]

Because it's so hard to write some kind of commentary about what you found interesting about it, and paste a quote from the article?

I mean, this is a forum. I think people have gotten used to Facebook, which makes it easy to just be a link-pasting, unthinking lump, but interacting on forums usually requires activating your brain and some kind of verbal interaction.

"Like"

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Because it's so hard to write some kind of commentary about what you found interesting about it, and paste a quote from the article?

I mean, this is a forum. I think people have gotten used to Facebook, which makes it easy to just be a link-pasting, unthinking lump, but interacting on forums usually requires activating your brain and some kind of verbal interaction.

"Like"

[The Johnny]