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Feature: Add an optional preview line/poster frame for items in view

Open timfallmk opened this issue 3 years ago • 0 comments

I would consider this a very optional feature, but still a nice to have. Loading a text preview (first 2-3 lines) of a linked article, if possible, or a small poster frame/icon would be nice for visual scrolling or checking whether it's worth it to open links in a browser.

  • Text could be from article or site body, only shown if possible to scrape
  • Icon/picture could be favicon/thumbnail of the site/whatever

Obviously this would increase the number of requests and data size used by the app, but some opportunistic loading could take the edge off that. Given that, and that a lot of people just prefer text, it would definitely be an opt-in feature.

I'm happy to do this myself.

Awesome work!

timfallmk avatar Jul 30 '21 22:07 timfallmk