*sigh*
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*sigh*
No matter how good the blogpost or article itself might *actually* be, if I spot, or suspect, that it has a slop header image, I probably won't read it.
Sure, perhaps I am missing out, but that is a boundary for me.
I appreciate that not everyone has the time, skill, or spoons to create or search for a CC-licensed image. My approach is just not to use a header image, which is a simple and free approach.
@neil Header images only really make sense for those social sharing blocks that come up when you drop the URL into a post, and there are other things authors can put there.
I saw a blog a couple of years back that used a screenshot of the top of the article as the preview image, so I do that for my blog now; much better than a slopped-together image with no relation to the content.
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For the last 25 years, I've relied on RSS for a lot of blogs that I read regularly.
If some of those have adopted slop images, I won't necessarily know, as I don't see their images.
And, if your blog does not have (full text, please) RSS, please do consider adding it! It is the future.
And the past.
@neil one of things I liked most when I created my site with Hugo, is that there was an rss feed by default. It was a big thing I wanted, regardless of if anybody reads my stuff.
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@neil one of things I liked most when I created my site with Hugo, is that there was an rss feed by default. It was a big thing I wanted, regardless of if anybody reads my stuff.
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*sigh*
No matter how good the blogpost or article itself might *actually* be, if I spot, or suspect, that it has a slop header image, I probably won't read it.
Sure, perhaps I am missing out, but that is a boundary for me.
I appreciate that not everyone has the time, skill, or spoons to create or search for a CC-licensed image. My approach is just not to use a header image, which is a simple and free approach.
@neil Sometimes there must be an image, because the theme requires it. In those situations, I grab something from https://vole.wtf/buttystock/. So far, only one person at work has asked why all the blog posts are illustrated with a picture of a crisp sandwich.
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@neil Sometimes there must be an image, because the theme requires it. In those situations, I grab something from https://vole.wtf/buttystock/. So far, only one person at work has asked why all the blog posts are illustrated with a picture of a crisp sandwich.
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*sigh*
No matter how good the blogpost or article itself might *actually* be, if I spot, or suspect, that it has a slop header image, I probably won't read it.
Sure, perhaps I am missing out, but that is a boundary for me.
I appreciate that not everyone has the time, skill, or spoons to create or search for a CC-licensed image. My approach is just not to use a header image, which is a simple and free approach.
@neil yeah this is the way. I've never seen a reason for adding header images to my blog posts...and a good number of them are photologs anyway!
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*sigh*
No matter how good the blogpost or article itself might *actually* be, if I spot, or suspect, that it has a slop header image, I probably won't read it.
Sure, perhaps I am missing out, but that is a boundary for me.
I appreciate that not everyone has the time, skill, or spoons to create or search for a CC-licensed image. My approach is just not to use a header image, which is a simple and free approach.
@neil I really do think that if you can learn to use a slop machine, you can learn to find public domain images. Many blog posts can be found telling you how (some that I have written).
But agreed. If you don't know how, you don't need an image. If the look of a post matters that much to you, you can find one ethically.
Everything takes effort, but searching Pixabay is not like learning Linux.
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For the last 25 years, I've relied on RSS for a lot of blogs that I read regularly.
If some of those have adopted slop images, I won't necessarily know, as I don't see their images.
And, if your blog does not have (full text, please) RSS, please do consider adding it! It is the future.
And the past.
@neil How can I have the same rss alert tool on all my devices? And one that stops showing ones I have read and/or clicked?
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@neil How can I have the same rss alert tool on all my devices? And one that stops showing ones I have read and/or clicked?
@adingbatponder It sounds like you might benefit from using a feed aggregator, like @freshrss.
That downloads your chosen feeds, and you subscribe to it, which keeps things in sync.
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*sigh*
No matter how good the blogpost or article itself might *actually* be, if I spot, or suspect, that it has a slop header image, I probably won't read it.
Sure, perhaps I am missing out, but that is a boundary for me.
I appreciate that not everyone has the time, skill, or spoons to create or search for a CC-licensed image. My approach is just not to use a header image, which is a simple and free approach.
@neil honestly, I'd prefer everyone just fucks off with the pointless images entirely. Sure, images that are actually relevant? Fine. But if you could just slap in a stock photo or slop photo? You don't need that image at all.
Words. They do work.
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@neil you got me thinking about my setup overnight. I’ve now implemented a custom feed template so the entire post is in there, not just the summary
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*sigh*
No matter how good the blogpost or article itself might *actually* be, if I spot, or suspect, that it has a slop header image, I probably won't read it.
Sure, perhaps I am missing out, but that is a boundary for me.
I appreciate that not everyone has the time, skill, or spoons to create or search for a CC-licensed image. My approach is just not to use a header image, which is a simple and free approach.
@neil My next post will have a public domain image, a photo I took myself, and a cartoon I paid a licence for.
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For the last 25 years, I've relied on RSS for a lot of blogs that I read regularly.
If some of those have adopted slop images, I won't necessarily know, as I don't see their images.
And, if your blog does not have (full text, please) RSS, please do consider adding it! It is the future.
And the past.
My blog does not have RSS because uh... it's just the Fediverse. This is the Fediverse. Hi welcome to my blog. You follow it, and then unlike RSS, it uses a push protocol to send you(r instance) updates. -
*sigh*
No matter how good the blogpost or article itself might *actually* be, if I spot, or suspect, that it has a slop header image, I probably won't read it.
Sure, perhaps I am missing out, but that is a boundary for me.
I appreciate that not everyone has the time, skill, or spoons to create or search for a CC-licensed image. My approach is just not to use a header image, which is a simple and free approach.
@neil I call this radicalism. -
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