Microcosm Feature Suggestions

Actually what I want to do there is utilise the same stuff that does YouTube video embedding.

I want links to auto-convert into some useful preview or embedding of what's at the other end of the links.

From a technical perspective... imagine if the only thing that the user did was to put links in posts and we would follow them, read the mime-type of the end item in the HTTP chain, and if image embed, otherwise if HTML look for open-graph or Twitter card and auto-embed that way.

And... if someone did CTRL+V and pasted what was obviously an image... upload and auto-attach.

I want posting and editing, attaching and embedding... to be so incredibly easy that even thinking of anything else is hard.

How about being able to resize whatever is embedded without having to click through to youtube, for example? Hate how small videos embed on here at the moment...