Title. Just curious if there’s any workarounds (like external hosting or linking to Pixelfed albums), or any solutions on the horizon, since I haven’t seen any posts about it, at least not recently.

  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    6 days ago

    . . . are you trying to re-invent the GIF/PNG or video-file?

    Basically, what I’m getting at, is that most social-media(particularly facebook, tumblr, twitter, tiktok) do “slideshows” as video. Web-pages can do whatever-you-want by comparison, but that’s not what you asked about(can we do frames on Lemmy, pretty-please? /s), so: Powerpoint can export directly to video, Google Slides will export to PNG, and LibreOffice … well … you’ll need OBS or some other screen-recorder for video, but also, it’ll export to GIF. Same goes for album software, like Windows Photo or digiKam. Even the Gallery app that came with my phone will do it, although surprisingly, Google Photos on Android either won’t do it or is just too obtuse for me to figure it out just now.

    Also, you seem to be unaware that albums can be accomplished by embedding multiple photos in the post content. You can throw a slideshow video in as your header, then put the pics that made it in the post body

    (^^this part^^).

    Sorry, but I don’t want you or anyone putting an album where I have no choice but to see the whole thing clogging-up my feed - even on tumblr, long posts start collapsed to a small chunk with a “See More” fold. I quite like how its done here, with a tap on a thumbnail, then a tap on the [+] for the rest.

    As for how we got here … blame ActiveX and flash-embedded malware. I’m still salty at the prevalence of JavaScript in their stead.

    IMHO, presentation software should have become little more than a specialized HTML/CSS, Video, or -yes-even-Album-editor long-ago. Its continued existance as-is just leads to idiots who think their presentation skills make them the second-coming, and questions like yours.

    To be clear, I appreciate you asking this. Your question isn’t in any way stupid or bothersome. I had not bothered to spell-out or organize my thoughts on the matter in … maybe ever. Can’t wait to find out I’ve basically plagarized some post or comment I read forever-ago.

    • edcasting@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      5 days ago

      ‌ I was just wondering if there was a way to make a post with multiple pictures that you can navigate one at a time with the arrow buttons or clicking next, without them taking over your screen and having to scroll down to see them. So they wouldn’t be displaying all at once, which is the whole point.
       I’m not a web development guy so I’m not familiar with the technical aspects of how it works or the limitations; I was only asking in case someone knew a way to do it, or if it was a planned feature in future versions of Lemmy.

      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        I thought you were aiming for screen take-over, to be honest. That or DRM, where you prevent downloads and/or screen-shots. Now you’ve got me wondering if we could hack a solution together with the existing Lemmy markup, but I doubt it.

        • edcasting@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          4 days ago

          That’d be awesome. I know you’ve got a lot on your dev plate, but I think the feature would go a long way toward helping the usability and adoption of lemmy.

          • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            2·
            4 days ago

            Apologies if I’ve said something to confuse you, but I’m not even a “dev”, let alone a lemme dev. I’m just old, for a millenial.

            That said, you could try something like:

            1

            2

            :::

            … but that’s the best I’ve come-up with just yet. I had thought we could maybe fit multiple of the collapsible-arrows on one line like-so, but both a text label(the 1 and 2) and line-breaks are mandatory/required to make the lemmy spoiler-tag work. It’s the single mark-down I find most annoyingt to work with here.

            Now that we have our criteria narrowed-down, you mind if I cross-post your post to another community/instance? From what I’ve heard of the devs, they likely won’t be watching lemmy.ml, so this community you’ve posted in seems to be more for discussion of activity on lemmy, not-so-much lemmy developement.