recommendations for plume

easier media management

• pro: image descriptions! FUCK but it's taking forever for other sites to catch up to that accessibility feature
• images seem to be broken in the gallery and in-post? uploaded two test images; neither are showing up
• the media page is going to be TOUGH to manage if you're running a media-heavy blog -- or even if you happen to like using image headers on your posts. maybe use thumbnails instead of having page-wide images that you'll need to scroll fully past in order to find a prior upload?
• have a way to edit image descriptions after uploading the image
• the "delete" link from the media gallery is broken, but there's also no way to get a direct link to an image from the media gallery - right now, the only way to delete an image is to hit the "delete" link, get the page that says the link is broken, change the url to the image's direct link, and then hit the "delete" link on the image's page itself

fancy text formatting in the editor mode

• clickable buttons would be nice
• or -until then- an html formatting guide linked somewhere (because my ass still managed to forget "br" for line breaks and had to look it up)

the editor mode itself

• pro: subtitle. i like it as a little aside to the post itself
• tags: feeling neutral about them. they're a different format (and the smash-everything-together certainly impedes readability of rambles) that doesn't enable a sort of second level of "communication" (ie, tag essays from tumblr, which i was particularly fond of and employed extensively)
• also, tags don't stay put in the order you enter them??? what's the scrambling method here?
• back to the point about media management, but the "illustrations" dropdown is going to become nightmarish if you end up with 10+ images stored in your gallery
• make it possible to switch a post from "draft" to "published" from the dashboard (without needing to enter the edit mode)
• the "edit" and "delete this article" buttons are dangerously close to each other. a bigger "edit" button would be nice, since that tends to be my priority over deleting things (and maybe a "delete" link that's different-coloured or -formatted?)
• make it possible to upload media to the gallery while in the article editing mode (especially for folks who like adding inline images)? like a pop-up box with all the same image description and cw prompts that will give you the image html stuff afterwards (otherwise realising that you need to go through a whole suite of extra clicks in order to wrangle down an image for your post is a bit of a hassle)
• is it not possible to bring an article back into draft/private mode after it's been published? what if you have regrets, or want to stew on something a little longer after the initial firing-into-the-world?
• if your article is longer than the default text box size, then trying to go back in to edit is a bit of a pain: you first load up the edit page, place your cursor in the box, hit any key on the keyboard, and then the text box will expand so you can access the lower parts of a lengthy post
• also the edit page seems to be struggling with the length of this post rn; the page is jumping up and down around the text box (is it trying to simultaneously load the minimised box and the expanded box?)
• please don't save every title and subtitle and image description i've ever written in the drop-down autofill recommendations; that's going to become tremendously unwieldy and be nothing but a reminder of how many times i've gone back in to make minor edits to a title/caption

other ui things

• pro: nice intuitiveness on the header with the dashboard/notifications/logout buttons -- clean and simple, and it doesn't scroll down with you and occupy valuable screen space
• might be nice to have editing links/buttons available from the blog homepage without needing that extra click to view an article itself and then being able to access the (tiny) edit link
• edit links at the bottom of a post? esp since the page seems to drop you to the bottom of a post after you finish publishing it, and that's when you most often tend to remember an edit that needs to be made

big pro: i like the blogging functionality -- a lot of the tumblr alternatives being suggested right now are missing that pretty vital element, and the ui isn't too cluttered/crazy atm, but it could do with some extra helpful elements