Could broken images be hidden? Take this post for example: https://leminal.space/post/37785395
It appears in my feed as:
And when I click through, the image appears as a 500 error:
Instead could the image be hidden?
Could broken images be hidden? Take this post for example: https://leminal.space/post/37785395
It appears in my feed as:
And when I click through, the image appears as a 500 error:
Instead could the image be hidden?
2 Comments
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 2 pts · 42d
In general I like that I can click retry to fetch the image because sometimes the error is only temporary.
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 16d
I think I will punt this request. I think it's important to show users that there was supposed to be an image but due to an error the image cannot be loaded. This gives the user insight to what happened which can inform them of what action to take.
Take for instance a post that said "I like this recipe" but when you tap it the imake fails to load and you see an error. This informs you that the user tried to post an inage to a recipe but somewhere along the way the image failed to load.
This is very different from a user forgetting to post the image.
If image load issues were hidden then there wouldn't be an easy eay to differentiate between the former or the latter case leading to user confusion.
There's other benefits too such as: