So who is responsible for ensuring the same restrictive format prevails across multiple platforms, reddit, saidit scored etc. All of them contrived to ensure users cannot compose compelling informational posts with text and images together.
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Now that you mention it, I ran a few phpBB forums in the early 00s, and allowing users to embed images (and even video) was a trivial matter.
A few subs on reddit appear to allow images in posts, but I've never seen it used as more than an inline-gif kind of thing like FB does.
Yeah I mean its so obviously contrived to suppress the presentation of information. Text and images have been the main tools for that for centuries. The internet should be all about that yet everywhere you look, those who control it try to suppress it. Even Twitter, sure they allow you to embed an image so they restrict the use of text to 1 paragraph.
Someone told me that's why Facebook is so shitty about writing long comments. Esp on the web browser in your phone. The phone app can be terrible. too. YouTube is similarly cumbersome. They don't want you to have productive convos. They make uploading images harder than it needs to be, even on FB. They just want you to post your selfies (for facial recognition), build a friends network (for them to track), and respond to stupid questions/personality quizes. They want you to give away your data for free, allow microphone access to background app, & reveal your inner thoughts to all NSA. Meanwhile, FB compiles your data and ranks it for social credit score. Did I mention every other post on your timeline is a targeted ad?
The "conspiracy theorist" in me figures it may just be because, while they have bots to parse through all the posts looking for things like porn links and scams, bots are notoriously hard to teach what the contents of a picture are.
They can be, but it's just really hard. So it's probably just easier not to allow images at all.
are there any user scripts, autohotkey or .js to make it easier to attach inline imgs to posts?
If people included image links in their posts, it wouldn't be too difficult to add a Greasemonkey/tampermonkey script that converted it to an image. But yeah, ideally the board itself would support it, probably with it being opt-in so people had to click some icon next to the link to expand it into an inline image.