Know that feeling
This is my issue with redditors deleting all their content from reddit. I agree with leaving because of the policy changes, but I think that adopting a scorched earth policy, mostly harms other users.
Indeed. I at least think they should repost the helpful information here to Lemmy so that users still have access to it, I understand driving traffic away from Reddit but we should keep that useful information open to the community.
Very often that info is the result of a full conversation:
- I have problem A.
- Try B
- Not, working, I get error C
- Ah, change D in your config
- Now it’s working, thanks.
That means automatation is more complicated, and there’s also the legal aspect.
It’s still very possible, but it probably stops quite a few people that considered this.
There’s a description field, could people please start putting a link to the original xkcd, i.e. https://xkcd.com/979/ in this case? It’s not that hard.
Without attribution you’re just doing copyright infringement (see also https://xkcd.com/license.html). And you’re hiding useful and nice information like the title text, the title, an the xkcd number, which you can use to get a transcription and an explanation on explainxkcd.
-deleted post-
-thanks, that actually worked!Nvm, fixed it.
Aaah, I am idiot. It’s memes! I never clicked on those links before, xkcd sounds like a porn site xD.
That’s hilarious. Guess you’re one of today’s lucky 10.000.
You can also embed the image
Like so: . So in this case Thanks, I saw embedded pictures before, but didn’t know how to do that. Now I also learned something new today.
Though for xkcd comics there is an alt-text with an additional punchline for every comic (tap alt-text on mobile link or hover over the comic with the cursor on PC), so it’s not ideal.
