Images in chapters

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Murakami

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This has been mentioned a few times to me, mostly in PMs, reddit conversations and other places, but I want to get a sense of how many people are interested/concerned, how important this is, and what features people would want so we can see if it is worth time to implement.

Currently, you can put images in a chapter by using the ![](image url) method.

The questions are:
  1. Is this sufficient?
  2. If it is not, what can't you do that you would like to?
  3. If you want more, what exactly would you want to be able to do that you can't now?
  4. How important is this to you?
  5. Bonus: Can you think of an audience that isn't using the site now that might if X were implemented?
Please keep this realistic (we are not going to reimplement photoshop as part of the site).
 
give basic css like control, set size and position and text wrap or break. Size is really the important one even if it only presents. Not a lot of stories use images for a few reasons, outside hosting can be unreliable, writing around images can be restrictive, and you often find wildly different resolution images available. Being able to resize an image preview it and refine position would be great. I have noticed that stories that use images have much higher view counts and will often advertise this in the meta tags to draw in readers, people do like it. Gifs and Webm file formats have also been thrown about as a cool potential thing.

There is one other thing in relation to images I want to bring up, story icon images. Having a bit more control over them, for example when you upload a super large image give cropping controls to get better results like most social media platforms do. There has to be a plugin somewhere for it. Larger icons might be good I would have to see it in action to know for sure.
 
Guess I'll necro this thread because it's relevant to me now.

I second Lake_Nine, being able to resize is the big thing that I've run into & it would be very helpful. Have others run into this?
 
It's more of a gimmick to me. I have used images in the past but typically only on one page and typically as a character page to post pictures to give readers an idea of what characters look like. At least in my head. The fact that it involves third party hosting means eventually the image will be useless eventually when a website takes them down or whatever to make room for new content.

One thing I do find interesting is if you do a image search on Bing for CHYOA you can see all the images that are used for the site. Not sure if it can be used in reverse for people to find the stories on accident through bings image search though.
 
RicoLouis said:
One thing I do find interesting is if you do a image search on Bing for CHYOA you can see all the images that are used for the site.
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Afaik, you can only find a "few" images and these might not even be images which are actually hosted on CHYOA but also hotlinked pictures.


There is a suggestion for cover images Clearer info on story covers. It would be nice to have a tool which allows choosing the part of the image for all 3 image sizes.

I think there is currently no suggestion to allow resizing and text wrap for in-chapter images, though it might be possible with another editor.
You might want to create a suggestion in the Suggestions subforum.

Suggestions with many votes are more likely to become implemented.
 
I wish Chyoa had image upload capabilities. I don't like having to upload to a third party site before linking in a story.

Plus, there are plenty of examples in countless stories where the host blocked embedded images, or no longer exists, or whatever, and so those image links are forever broken unless the original author re-uploads.
 
Aman Onfy Mous said:
I wish Chyoa had image upload capabilities. I don't like having to upload to a third party site before linking in a story.

Plus, there are plenty of examples in countless stories where the host blocked embedded images, or no longer exists, or whatever, and so those image links are forever broken unless the original author re-uploads.
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The issue isn't uploading but storing the images, which I imagine would be very expensive.
 
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