Moxie

In case you were unaware, I made a grid generator that can be helpful for posting multiple pieces of art in the same post with more flexibility for size/display than the default image uploads give you! I just updated it with a few new features, including:

Instruction manual
Customize links for each image
Put captions under or over images

As an example, please appreciate three of my favorite @littlegoodfrog comic panels:

Mason: A straight person would never mess up macaroni this bad
Kimmy: God damn it... god... — Matchmaker

Franky thinking "MAKE OUT WITH ME" over and over — Flying Saucer Video

Mason: Slutty from head to toe
Kimmy: FUCK YEAH! — Matchmaker

made with @nex3's grid generator

This and all my other utilities are always linked from my profile!

#cohost utilities

Natalie @nex32/21/2024, 8:08 AM

btw if there are things this doesn't do that you wish it did please let me know! it's very much a "spare time project" but I am not without spare time on occasion

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in reply to @nex3's post:

maddie @ninecoffees7/7/2023, 1:04 AM

I NEEDED THIS THANK YOU

Allikitti @Allikitti7/7/2023, 2:04 AM

Super useful, thank you for making!!

curious quail @curiousquail7/7/2023, 3:00 AM

holy shit this incredible, thank you!

SkylarHylar @SkylarHylar7/7/2023, 8:32 AM

Thank you not only for this utility, but also the choice of example images.

TV-MA @TV-MA7/7/2023, 8:49 AM

Thank you!!

Bryan H.@MegaMasterX7/7/2023, 3:18 PM

@LurkinPandaNSFW

Si F Sweetman @SiFSweetman7/7/2023, 5:58 PM

Incredible. Thank you for your service!

Whitney @Heartcookie7/8/2023, 1:04 PM

This is so useful, thank you so much!!

DToxon @DToxon7/12/2023, 1:51 AM

This is so cool, thank you!

@DrDubz8/1/2023, 5:10 AM

Ooooh I'll have to give this a spin

in reply to @nex3's post:

graham @graham2/21/2024, 8:30 AM

I've seen a handful of people over the past year asking for a way to lay a grid of text in the same row as a picture as a sort of "aside" in an article. I think that could be straightforward and would make non-technical people (and/or people who don't want to go through the effort) really happy

Natalie @nex32/21/2024, 8:32 AM

this sort of mixed-text-and-markup stuff may be a better fit for something like Markdown PLUS that's all about composing an entire post rather than a tool that's more for injecting specific widgets

Malus @Malusdraco2/21/2024, 5:19 PM

it's probably a tall ask, but one of the things that frustrates me is that it opens images in a new tab when you click on it rather than simply a shadowbox overlay like regular image posts on the site. especially for sequential things, it's easy to lose the narrative between images if you have to go back and forth.
my devbrain says it's probably way trickier to implement than it seems though...

Natalie @nex32/21/2024, 8:33 PM

yeah unfortunately there's no way to fix this without Cohost devs adding built-in support for mid-text images (which I think I heard is pretty high on their priority list)

@dandelionblizzard2/24/2024, 2:21 AM

A feature to paste a batch of links at once (comma or newline separated) and have them automagically slurped in would be really useful. This is a similar generator with that feature (but it makes a <*table> instead of divs so it doesn't play well with differently sized images).