Hey all,

I’m evaluating PieFed as a replacement for Lemmy, with a view to importing my two Lemmy communities to move them out of the failing Lemmy instance they’re currently hosted on (a PieFed exclusive I understand). I’ve created an account and imported my Lemmy settings yesterday, and so far it’s been more or less smooth sailing.

But there’s one showstopper for me: when I create a post, there’s no field to specify the thumbnail image URL. When PieFed guesses the image URL correctly, no problem. But here, I just posted this YouTube video, and just like on Lemmy half of the time, the thumbnail image didn’t get picked up. On Lemmy, I always manually insert the thumbnail URL when I post YouTube links for that reason.

Similarly, some sites make it extra-hard for software to correctly guess the og:image - Reuters for instance - and so in those cases when it doesn’t work, I manually set the correct thumbnail URL too.

Here on PieFed, there doesn’t seem to be a provision to set the thumbnail URL.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something obvious? I really doubt this basic functionality is missing from PieFed.

  • wjs018@crust.piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    As the author of the codeberg issue for this, it hasn’t been added yet. I really liked the custom thumbnail feature when it was added to lemmy, so I haven’t forgotten about adding it to piefed. A big focus of my devwork recently has been on the api-side to help make apps/frontends more complete, so we will get there. I just added the issue to the 1.3 release kanban to make sure it is prioritized.