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Open source devs: please, please add screenshots... (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I beg you, if you are a developer of an open source app or program - add screenshots of your app to the README file. When looking for the perfect app, I had to install dozens of them just to see what the user interface looked like and whether it suits me. This will allow users to decide if the app they choose will suit them... Please, don't think about it, just do it....

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[–] emergencyfood 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

README is usually a text file. While some platforms can now use markdown, that is nowhere near universal. So it might be better to ask for screenshots to be put on the website / wiki.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GitHub and GitLab both support inserting images into your README.md. Here's the syntax:

![Description of the image](https://path/to/image)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just like obsidian.md

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

And anything that supports CommonMark. It's even in the original Markdown

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And Lemmy!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Not just a text file, a markdown file. And markdown has supported images since forever

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

README.txt will be a text file, README.md can be much more