Started a Micro.blog experiment that renders a snapshot of your blog post as an image, which could be used for Open Graph previews or thumbnails in the UI. Not sure the best form this should take when it’s live. Suggestions? If you could have a little thumbnail of any web page, how would you use it?
@manton I admit this is a little harsh and I don’t intend it that way but, it’s one of my pet peeves when people encode text as an image.
Surely there must be a better way to do it that preserves the text, right? That doesn’t introduce all the downsides of converting to image? PDF? Something?
Again, I don’t want to downplay the work you’ve put into this, it’s just one of my pet peeves.
@manton @volkris I have mixed feelings about "text as image." Clearly it's a function of social media siloing—but it often works.
@volkris I agree, "text as image" is a pet peeve of mine too. This started because of the proliferation of fairly useless web page previews, thinking how that can be improved.