HarbingerOfTomb

Personally for me it will be a huge quality of life improvement if the post time selection boxes were moved to the very top.

I schedule so many that I have to look at the post list to see when my last one is and then when I go to schedule new post I scroll all the way to the bottom to set this new Post Time appropriately in relation to the last scheduled post. Then I scroll back up to the top and fill in the rest of the information

Would it be possible to either: A. have a setting that will auto set the time for the next scheduled post, e.g. a certain number of hours after the last one scheduled or B. Have preset buttons on the date/time section to set your date and time such as - After Last Post: +1 hour, +4 hour,+6 hours, +12 hours, +24 hours, etc

It would be nice to be able to import and export community subscriptions so as to more easily move between accounts.

I'm assuming that the body field supports markup but are you planning to integrate any HTML functions into the editor?

Edit: I did a test post with an anchor link and it DOESN'T accept HTML tags. Interesting. So any plans to do this in the future?

Is there no place to copy the link of a link post?

I just came across a YouTube video that I wanted to watch on a post but when I clicked on it it opened in the native YouTube app instead of Vanced.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19470936

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