It’s mildly annoying to do, but my main worry is that it interrupts the flow of the post—it’s no longer optional. Having to use Snipping Tool has become second nature.
A highly recommended quality-of life improvement is to use ShareX, a program which will let you take a screenshot, immediately upload it to Imgur, then copies the URL link into your clipboard. Sharing, embedding, and backing up anything you see becomes habitual. For example, I hit “Ctrl + Shift + 4”, then “Ctrl + V” and get: https://i.imgur.com/LDclgnH.png
It not only saves me time, it cuts out a trivial inconvenience of showing my screen to others. URLs work universally, and I don’t have to figure out the image upload process of every website everywhere. It’s actually a qualitative change in the type of content I share to e.g. coworkers and friends, and, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
At least for the LW editor, I can do Option+Shift+4, select the area of the screen, and then just CTRL+V into the editor. My guess is the same is true for Wordpress? Basically as fast as copying a link.
If you get it into the clipboard it should work. But again, using Snipping Tool is fine, it’s purely about not cluttering the post slash giving people access to any links/threads/etc.
If that is indeed the LW preference—then could it be done on the import phase? (Or by readers on LW?) I like the twitter links because they’re actually good, and would happily switch to reading on your blog to get the unabridged version.
More simply, would spoilering the twitter stuff work?
Anyone else agree? Often they are necessary but I’ve considered doing less of them, I using pasting in more important ones.
On the margin I’d probably add screenshots for the 2-3 key ones. I used to find this irritating but now it’s a habit when I share things at work.
It’s mildly annoying to do, but my main worry is that it interrupts the flow of the post—it’s no longer optional. Having to use Snipping Tool has become second nature.
A highly recommended quality-of life improvement is to use ShareX, a program which will let you take a screenshot, immediately upload it to Imgur, then copies the URL link into your clipboard. Sharing, embedding, and backing up anything you see becomes habitual. For example, I hit “Ctrl + Shift + 4”, then “Ctrl + V” and get: https://i.imgur.com/LDclgnH.png
It not only saves me time, it cuts out a trivial inconvenience of showing my screen to others. URLs work universally, and I don’t have to figure out the image upload process of every website everywhere. It’s actually a qualitative change in the type of content I share to e.g. coworkers and friends, and, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.
At least for the LW editor, I can do Option+Shift+4, select the area of the screen, and then just CTRL+V into the editor. My guess is the same is true for Wordpress? Basically as fast as copying a link.
If you get it into the clipboard it should work. But again, using Snipping Tool is fine, it’s purely about not cluttering the post slash giving people access to any links/threads/etc.
Agree. I don’t have Twitter blocked, but generally regard it as a memetic hazard to be avoided if possible.
I usually just hope the Twitter links aren’t that important/interesting.
Twitter is almost always blocked on my devices, as well.
If that is indeed the LW preference—then could it be done on the import phase? (Or by readers on LW?) I like the twitter links because they’re actually good, and would happily switch to reading on your blog to get the unabridged version.
More simply, would spoilering the twitter stuff work?
Like this.
Would also prefer fewer twitter links.