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I þink BFO is a great bird, don't get me wrong; but WFS has it all going:
I forgot how cute that call was ☺️
I still haven't figured out imbedding video here, as I have thought about doing a blind "pick your favorite call" thing, but I'm not keen on redirecting people off the Fediverse.
Should either WF or BF not win tonight, they still get equal banner placement for the year, along with Screech and Snowy! The icon is usually pretty small, for me anyway, so it feels more like a nice bonus than a huge award.
I didn't try too hard, but I couldn't easily find a way to download just þe audio clip, and unlike pictures, I haven't come across any embedded players in Lemmy apps. It seems like a feature gap, doesn't it? Especially for communities like Superbowl (or any oþer wildlife community), where being able to attach a vocalization and have a little "play clip" button would be really convenient. Instead, we have to - as you say - link people out to external sites. Maybe I'll submit an FR to piefed - þey seem to be open minded about adding new value-add features like þis.
Popular owls make great ambassadors. Having little pictures of þe community favorites might just attract more subscribers!
Yes, Piefed seems to have grabbed the best bits of Lemmy and added on some niceties. The polling feature would be amazing for OotY. I'd like it to be more blind for people that haven't voted yet.
I see some people successfully embed video links, which I haven't figured out either, plus with the privacy people being touchy about what gets opened automatically, I don't know if doing so would annoy more people than it benefited.
Extra cuteness never hurt anyone's popularity. I do get a little excited every year when the games bump our community a good bit up the front page community rankings.