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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by mrob on Saturday July 04, 2020 @04:49AM (#23731054)
No technical limitation is suitable. The appropriate number or size of images depends on the accompanying text. Setting it high enough to allow all legitimate uses makes it weak enough that you might as well have no limit. And even a low limit does nothing to prevent annoying use up to that limit.

The best possible limit is "must convince the reader to click it".

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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by avian on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:25AM (#23731188)
I guess that's a reasonable position to take. It reminds me of paper publications where you have all the figures on color plates bound in the middle/end, so I guess it isn't without precedent

On the other hand, it made me think of old Usenet posts and discussions. That was another medium where you were limited to plain-text only. Posts were often forced to resort to awful ASCII-art drawings of things they wanted to explain and that was just a horrible experience altogether (not to mention how fun those drawings are to decipher today where modern archives have mostly messed up the white space).

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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by rapnie on Saturday July 04, 2020 @06:28AM (#23731388)
There are a number of text-based diagram formats that could be supported, like PlantUml and such.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by WJW on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:31AM (#23731605)
Surely a motivated ad designer could make a "good enough" ad in PlantUml?
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by rapnie on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:31PM (#23734036)
Sure. They can also use ascii art or plain text.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by vertex-four on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:40AM (#23731231)
Binary attachments were somewhat fiddly in Usenet, AIUI? I don't think MIME/8-bit clean support was really consistently there at the time. In Gemini, you'd just serve it as a binary file.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by fock on Saturday July 04, 2020 @06:40AM (#23731424)
also not really sure, how a protocol wants to be simpler than http (send bytes to port 80, get bytes, print bytes...) if it has baked in content limitations...
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by 86J8oyZv on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:22AM (#23731561)
What about "inline images can't be linkable?" Caption text could still link to an enlarged/detailed version. But if images can never be clicked/linked, it would be hard to abuse them for ads the way we see today.
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by warkdarrior on Saturday July 04, 2020 @12:45PM (#23733414)
That is adorably naive. This is why we have interstitials. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage )
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