Saidit.net — Feb 17, 2019 — New Feature: Expandos (media expanding buttons) and thumbnails now support 6 new media providers - Vimeo, Bitchute, SoundCloud, d.tube, Peertube, and Imgur albums

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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Congrats on all this.

I don't understand the last bit about the thumbnails. What is a "selfpost" and wiki you mean like Wikipedia, Infogalactic, etc or do you mean the SaidIt wiki? I thought it was already doing that, (though often with random results - ie. Truther Top 20 Movies had an image that was far down on the list).

This might be too late to help you, but I recently added an image downloader to my Brave Browser. Sometimes there are background images that you can't normally right-click save. These image downloaders dig out those images with a manager too. I'm guessing some might be open source if you wanted to borrow features.

I don't know if this is related or completely different, but it'd be neat to be able to use SVGs and GIFs for the CSS. Animated banners, buttons, etc. It could get keyrazie!

[–]wizzwizz4 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

A self-post is a text post. Basically, the thumbnail will be taken from wiki links in non-link posts if those posts contain a link.

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Full gif support is on our list. Maybe we'll support svg too but that's harder because they can have embedded javascript that needs to be stripped/sanitized. Svg isn't supported in a lot of systems because of this.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Bummer. .AI files are for Adobe Illustrator. .SVG are much simpler and I'd figured pretty basic. They rarely load properly in Illustrator. I'm bummed they can get loaded with crap. I wonder how Wikimedia Commons handles it. To find the answer to that, maybe watch this space for a week or so... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#SVG_and_embedded_javascript_stripping

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#SVG_and_embedded_javascript_stripping

Got a hit. Don't know if this helps.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That is helpful, having a good example. Thanks man.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You might find a lot more good examples in the the open source Wikimedia family, and if you seek decentralized ideas Everipedia is also open source.