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You're right and sorry, It was just a online way of me enthusiastically pointing at a thing and trying to say: This is value, just a snippet of text on a pale y

by mnsc 3y ago

You're right and sorry, It was just a online way of me enthusiastically pointing at a thing and trying to say: This is value, just a snippet of text on a pale yellow background, where no-one were actively trying to create this value. I can't really put my finger on what I'm trying to say though so i guess that is the root the confusion. :D Like, I don't get paid for this content so it doesn't have to make sense. edit: also I use greenshot so it's too easy for me to screenshot and get an imgur-link. And yes, I'm a screenshoter, sending my colleagues images of text all the time. I'm lucky to be alive still. edit2: example, slack dm from 1 hour ago https://i.imgur.com/807OQML.png https://i.imgur.com/807OQML.png

AndrewKemendo 3y ago
Please don’t apologize, your approach is pretty normal - I probably send a dozen screenshots around per day and it’s always easiest to just show people what I’m referring to directly with an image.
- jrochkind1 3y ago
  Hacker News has pretty easily accessible URLs for every comment. Just click on the timestamp next to the comment, like "12 hours ago". Sending the actual HN url to a comment or thread, instead of a screenshot: * Is accessible to people with limited vision who can't or can't as easily read a screeshot. Many people even without vision impairment find text much easier to consume than a photo of text. For instance, text in reasonable CSS will flow to fit your screensize, where a screenshot will not. * For those interested, easily provides the context of where the comment/thread appeared and what's around it, hard to trace back from a screenshot to HN * For the future archival purposes, is often more likely to still be good than a link to a third-party image hosting site * In the rare case where it matters, is "self-authenticating", it points to HN itself, while an image can be modified or faked, although certainly in most cases there is no motivation for someone to do so, still it's nice to have it built in. When it's an HN comment, or anything else with a URL, I think it should be nearly as easy to show people what you're refering to with a URL to it, as it is with a screenshot?

by mnsc 3y ago

AndrewKemendo 3y ago

Please don’t apologize, your approach is pretty normal - I probably send a dozen screenshots around per day and it’s always easiest to just show people what I’m referring to directly with an image.

jrochkind1 3y ago
Hacker News has pretty easily accessible URLs for every comment. Just click on the timestamp next to the comment, like "12 hours ago". Sending the actual HN url to a comment or thread, instead of a screenshot: * Is accessible to people with limited vision who can't or can't as easily read a screeshot. Many people even without vision impairment find text much easier to consume than a photo of text. For instance, text in reasonable CSS will flow to fit your screensize, where a screenshot will not. * For those interested, easily provides the context of where the comment/thread appeared and what's around it, hard to trace back from a screenshot to HN * For the future archival purposes, is often more likely to still be good than a link to a third-party image hosting site * In the rare case where it matters, is "self-authenticating", it points to HN itself, while an image can be modified or faked, although certainly in most cases there is no motivation for someone to do so, still it's nice to have it built in. When it's an HN comment, or anything else with a URL, I think it should be nearly as easy to show people what you're refering to with a URL to it, as it is with a screenshot?