I don't know if it's part of the platform, but all of the watermarking seems a little over the top. By that I mean the "sent from Squall", and "by...via @SquallApp".<p>I'd put forth that you don't need those things to have people understand where the image came from; the link in the twitter post that starts with "squall.io/", and anyone following the link ends up at the site.<p>Not that it's overwhelming, it's just that I don't personally get any value out of those lines of text being there, and it takes away from the concision of the real post.
This not solving a real problem. This problem was entirely invented by twitter and is slowly being degraded in a horrible, suboptimal way.<p>Maybe I have just having a shitty day, but it is really sad to see people spending time solving silly human imposed problems.
I saw a similar application here on HN one of the valid points against this is that you cannot really parse the text through the image, so it becomes a barrier against visually impaired users. At first I was thinking it was going to be links to a bigger tweet or something similar.
Nice work, just read about your project in an Assembly email.<p>That said, based on all of the Squall posts I've looked at, I can only read a fraction of the image. The rest is obscured by Twitter.<p>Given this state of affairs, how is Squall better than just posting a link to a Gist, or something like that, since I have to click on the link to read the full post in both cases?
Nice work austin! (Fellow assembly user)<p>Thoughts:
- I was wondering about this exact same thing the other day. Twitter photos have made it really easy to break the 140 character rule, and there are lots of wordpics in my stream these days. This seems like a brilliant hack.
- [BUG] No space between "Posted" and "Month"
- It currently counts self-views as well. Maybe remove them from the count? Should be possible as long as images are not on a CDN, I think
Good idea. I've seen similar things in China Weibo a few years ago. It is a very popular way to write one long tweet(weibo). It seems like Chinese companies may start from copying but they can gradually come up with innovative ideas. Wechat is another example. I think its platform beats what's app, line.
Hi, core team here from Squall. I'd be happy to answer any questions/comments.<p>Squall is a community-built product on Assembly. So each contributor gets some fraction of ownership, commensurate with their contribution to the product.<p>I'd highly suggest writing a Squall post. It's an easy way to say more on Twitter.