A long-term vision of how content is created with Blue

[FiberJW]

This is a little bit of a long term thought but one thing that I think is an opportunity to make this app really great is to give people more nuanced control over the details of the way their posts look / present.
And make those flows smooth
Here are some examples:
(1) I posted a reply to jim’s dog post that was a screenshot of some funny thing from instagram about god and dogs.
It was actually  screenshot my friend sent to me and it had a bunch of random border-y stuff from her phone.
I might have wanted to crop it down once I saw it inline
It would be cool if I could do that crop in an organic way instead of upfront when I’m selecting the photo
Its simpler to do it upfront but its not as fluid and organic in a lot of ways
(2) When people post links to tweets, there are often different things you want to emphasize
Sometimes a tweet has an image and text
and you want to just really show the image
sometimes you want to just show the text and the image is just irrelevant
sometimes you want to show the text but let the image be tappable to see full size
Another example would be, its fairly common to post a link to a tweet that is quote tweeting something else. Would be good to see the quoted tweet in there too in that case, but sometimes you’d want to take it out
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If we can give people a real sense of control over what they are posting but still them do stuff like leaning on other people’s content, that’s a pretty efficient system
``` - ccheever

[FiberJW]

One related idea here from a while back is to enable people making text posts to quickly add and customize a relevant image , along with the style/orientation of text atop it. Would be really cool if there were some easy way to use the unique words within text they write to present a bg img picker
``` - jason