this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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Software Gore

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Deliberately bad software or bad design is not software gore, it must be something unintentional

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[–] irelephant@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

its

![](https://image.url/)

so,

[–] Bonus@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also you can add a text description of the image between the brackets if you'd like. It helps blind people.

[–] Bonus@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Oh, so it becomes alt text? That's brilliant. It just disappeared but I didn't realize what happened. Or I'm misunderstanding ~~(not seeing the text)~~. Nope, I see it if I click on show source.

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Also, some apps like Voyager will show the alt text as a caption when you open the image.

[–] Bonus@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

That's what I was expecting. Have to check that out. Thanks.