No offense taken, I just like being on top of the little details that can sway how people use / don't use NG. Letting you directly embed your art would be a handy feature, it's ALMOST tempting to auto-embed it when you paste in the URL, instead of using our smaller rich content link, but that might get crazy in some posts that want to feature a lot of art.
We're working on a new view tracking system and want to be able to track views even when they come from a feed - so for example, new art in your feed would appear at full size (the largest size possible in the feed layout), instead of as a rich content link. We would still track views, so people seeing your art in their feed would count as views of your art. The same could potentially apply to views in a forum or blog thread if we had embedding there as well.
TomFulp
You can post multiple screenshots in an NG blog - is there something specific about the way DA does it that makes it easier / better?
SilverStitch (Updated )
Hey Tom!
The only real benefit is that dA handles the screenshots/images as a separate post. If you're trying to rush a post this can be annoying but other than that it can be beneficial. It lets you control title, description, comments and updates to the image, and then embeds that image into your journal. This allows for higher resolution viewing and for people to comment directly on the image, dividing your audience reception between journal readers and image viewers. I guess the NG version of this would be if you could embed your posted Art into your journal (though theoretically one could just insert their image into the post and then convert it to a hyperlink, right)? [Edit: Just did a little test: dA scales their images in the journal according to browser size while NG remains true to original image size.]
Don't take this as a comment against the NG journal posting system though! The main reason I used dA for the Dev Diary posts is that I (some-how) ended up getting into a habit of posting on dA, nothing else.
Thanks again for the Halloween Competition! <3