[Apologies if this is the wrong place to post feedback for this service -- please feel free to direct me to a better place.]
Thanks again for creating this service! It's great--I'm glad to have it. My feedback is only intended to help improve the service.
1. I know Twitter doesn't yet support uploading longform tweets via the API. When it becomes possible to do so, I would prefer that the tweet not be truncated.
2. May we also have a flag to turn off the njump link? Unfortunately, Twitter posts mostly a duplicate of the tweet as a preview in blinding black on white text.
3. Would like to be able to upload attached images directly to Twitter. As I think only one image per upload is allowed, upload the first image in the tweet, if there are multiple images.
Example tweet posted below.
https://m.primal.net/HPXV.png
Ok I finally managed to sit down and think about this after I got over the jet lag and getting sick. I translated all the suggestions into GitHub issues to make sure that they aren’t lost.
I think posting long tweets would make perfect sense and would let us remove the njump links completely which you mentioned as a problem in the second point. That being said I agree that right now I don’t think this is possible using the API? I feel like it should be so maybe there is a way but the docs for the new API aren’t great right now I feel.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues/41
Regarding the njump links: I like them because it helps find the original content but at the same time I agree that they look awkward and out of place. I can think of multiple approaches:
- skip rendering njump links when notes aren’t cut off because they fit in one tweet
- remove njump links completely even if a note is cut off
- don’t post notes which are too long
- post long notes as threads with multiple tweets
- let people decide what to do on a per-feed basis which unfortunately complicates the website
All of those solutions have downsides and I don’t know what the best one is.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues/44
Images can be posted directly to twitter but the problem is that that loses context around where that image was in the note. For example I often post links to content images and write in between them like I did in this note. This just doesn’t translate into the twitter format.
https://github.com/planetary-social/nos-crossposting-service/issues/42
Basically I feel we are dealing with all the typical problems of crossposting from one platform to another :(
If anyone has any suggestions regarding any of those problems please let me know.
A related issue with long links in addition to the awkwardness is that this, for example: https://njump.me/nevent1qqst06sg76dyyv5n8n0drgaaeyll7m8ffll66f27xyudfnac646je6q68dhq6
takes 85/500 chars on Mastodon toot.
24/300 in Bsky (it’s capped on URLs) or none if posted as an embed and not in the body), and
43/300 in X (if I got it right).
That makes cross-posting or composing notes hard to do at once.
Weirdly, you can put more characters on Bsky by deleting the URL from the body text than what X allows (for non-verified) 😁