LemmyNet
Image Gallery/Carousel support
Describe the feature you'd like
Add support for image carousels, with the ability to add captions, links, and alt text to each slide.
Describe alternatives you've considered
It's already possible to add multiple images and links to post bodies.
Additional context
I only thought to open this feature request after Reddit added this feature.
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It would probably be best to ask for a gallery / collection feature / API from our image host, pict-rs. Then lemmy could support carousel links by parsing that gallery.
Otherwise, lemmy would have to change from a single link aggregator, to a multi-link aggregator where a single post could have multiple links attached to it, which I wouldn't want to do.
Of course you can already link imgur albums or whatever as links, but it might be nice for pict-rs to have this.
I did ask, and it seems we're on our own with this. The best long term way to think about this IMO, is to expand lemmy to allow for multiple links for a single post.
IE, create a post_link table, and extract the url, thumbnail, and embed columns into it, and return that array of links with the lemmy post.
Couldn't this be resolved from the ActivityPub side, by having a as:collection with links to all images in the galley?
That would only solve the federation part, but it also needs to be supported in the database, api and frontend.
I'm thinking this issue is not worth keeping open; especially since you can already use post and comment bodies to post multiple pictures anyway.
Could we reconsider this? I've been working on this for a little while now, just been tapped for time so haven't been able to get anything up.
