I made some improvements to OnePo this week. Specifically:

• I brought back the ability to insert more text, image and video blocks in between existing blocks in your post. Personally I found it too crazymaking to always add things at the bottom and then nudge them up.
• However, there were user experience concerns expressed about that being too much before. This is why I took a stab at a better experience for it: the buttons to add new blocks are nestled in a single "+" toggle above each existing block, and you can toggle it closed again.
• Speaking of nudging things up from the bottom, that was not a great experience either, particularly if you had to nudge something with the arrows ten times. So now we drag blocks around instead.

These changes work well on desktop, should also work well on tablets (let me know if you get the chance to try it), and work okay on mobile. I do find the new experience of dragging an image a little weird on the iPhone, but it works and hopefully I can continue to fine-tune it.

However... these changes are a bit selfish. There's nothing wrong, obviously, with putting my own uncompensated free time into features I like. Honestly! The nerve of this guy!

But, I've also promised alt text for images and that's a matter of accessibility. So I will get back to that next.

Alt text will be easiest to add for images in posts, because those are full-blown blocks in the editor. Adding one more editable field to them is no big deal.

But for images in comments, it's necessary to rethink the user experience. Right now it's a bit of a hack: "just pick an image and it'll upload and bam your comment is live!" That's cute, but it closes the door on adding alt text before your comment is live. And also there is currently no way to edit an existing image comment. So yeah, rethink.

I did carry out some interesting experiments in that area recently, which also included improvements to the image uploading experience. If I manage to carry that through, image uploads will be a lot faster because the browser will be doing the initial resizing work if necessary.