I have always show link below post disabled but in post and comments view for post the link is always shown below.

In settings, based on the example, when toggling this setting no link should be displayed below and I guess tapping directly on image should open the link?

Is there something I don’t understand or is it a known bug? I couldn’t find any post about it! If it is really a bug then it’s strange that no one would have reported it before.

  • idunnololz@lemmy.worldM
    2·
    8 days ago

    It’s a valid question/suggestion. This was just how I chose to implement this feature from the start which was to keep the thumbnail and link separate. I think most apps do combine them so that tapping on the image opens the link instead of the image.

    When I was designing this I wanted to give a clear way to interact with the link vs the image. Combining them makes it murkier. Eg. what if someone actually wanted to download the thumbnail?

    I think combining them definitely makes more sense for optimizing for the most common case though.

    I think given the behavior of other apps this is probably a losing battle for me. I’ll give this more thought and revisit the design of this.

    • Matth@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      8 days ago

      what if someone actually wanted to download the thumbnail?

      I would expect a long press to show an option to display the thumbnail. I just checked with your purely image post example and it seems that the context menu is already perfect.
      For comparison Thunder just shows a purely image post as if the picture was embedded and only shows a combined image and link when the link is a different URL.

      Thanks for considering it!