![]() I can't copy/paste a Tweet but I can screenshot it. Because documents don't support dumb copy/paste usefully. for Reddit? It's images that get mangled. Copying and pasting rich text is always a roll of the dice about what's going to get mangled. Raw markdown or HTML? Getting the images in is tricky, you generally need a parallel way to upload them and need to update all their paths separately. If you copy and paste rich text data or HTML, the images are probably going to go away - Reddit's rich text editor fails on this. txt file into most comment boxes, but you can trivially copy and paste text. ![]() ![]() Text is similar - I mean, you can't load a. On the modern web the copy/paste works amazing for images. You can copy the hyperlink and the target site can either display it by ref or it can copy the content and display it inline. Imho, part of this is an industry failure to provide an interoperable way to share documents that meets the needs of the modern web - a way to copy documents by-value instead of by-reference that runs in the browser, and can be composed into an existing website. Of course the screenshot shortcut is always consistent. Is it that "link previews" are generally worse than a screenshot of the page? Or is it just that people don't know where to find the links? This is especially bad on apps where you need to know how to find the share option separately on each app. I wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular, especially outside of the tech-sphere. Great, nice jacket, if only I could click that "buy" button. I get people sending me things that I might like as a screenshot. Unfortunately this is just what the web has come to. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare for usability, especially for disabled people where a photo may be less accessible than raw text with their browser styling. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. You could save the link without Reddit.īut Reddit is moving towards first party content. You would post a link and the author would get credit. Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator.
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