I am running the beta of Sunlit (thankyou @manton).
I have done two posts so far ….
… Which is pretty simple really - adding a picture, dropping in some text - it’s like a post - which I can already do in the core app.
BUT
I think what Sunlit is really about is ‘telling visual stories’ - in fact in the interface, it actually uses that term, so I took three pictures out of my library and wrote a story … (don’t worry - I am not expecting an award!)
So far so good - but here are the issues
- That layout doesn’t naturally come out of Sunlit - I had to come back to my post once published and edit to get the order of the photos organized - and then move my text around to relate the text to the story.
- This might be ‘operator error’ … So just recording this thought for now.
- Also - on the single post - I have a big picture, but with multiple pictures, the app forces the images to something smaller - and in fact - notice how the portrait is smaller than the two landscapes …
This is what I Think Sunlit should be able to as an MVP for visual story telling …
- Load multiple pictures
- Reorder the pictures that make sense for my story
- Let me control how big those pictures are
- Let me inject copy throughout the pictures
To be clear … Sunlit is a beta app - so I am sure that this is all taken on board … certainly will continue to use it - high hopes - might even get me to think about posts using images more than I do.
Just for kicks (that aren’t always on route 66) two screen captures of what the posts look like after I di the editing in the micro.blog - ‘visual’ view and ‘text’ view
