RE: Blogging

I made a post about this in The Lounge. There, I had to conserve my own suggestions so I could actually ask others what they wanted. Here, I will dump my own ideas for how staff could improve the blogging feature.

- Images. Multiple images would encourage people to post things like comics and really any image sets. Inline images would be even better to break up the walls of text. Dividers, decome, and even just pictures to the side would be great. Alt text is a must if we get this.
- Text colours. Free range to choose any colour would be preferred, but even a nice site-wide palette would be cool. Again, it would break up the text.
- Audio embeds. A much later game feature, if it'll ever be added, but I digress. I think just something like what we have on our profiles.
- Blog background styling. Not necessarily what we have in the posts/profiles, where we can change everything. Even some presets (paper textures, greeting card styles, etc.) would add some fun customisation!

Overall, I think blogs need more than text styling and a higher character limit. Posts garner more interactions because they can be shared in groups, which people already have more control over. Images also tip the scale a lot. I don't want to make posts worse, but I think blogs need to be more inviting than posts overall.

I think blogs should be the main way we talk here. Blogs are where you dump how your day went, while posts are, "My day sucked, lol," or, "Blog is gonna take a little longer."