Polish dweet gif watermarks

[lionleaf]

Currently watermarks looks like this:

There's been talk about changing them; either in minor ways, like moving them back to the top, adding a white bar at the bottom so they don't overlap the dweet (which would allow cropping for better or worse), or bigger features like various options to remove them for some users (maybe the author himself).

Making this issue to hear what the community has to say, and as a place for comments as more people start to actually use the feature.

[joeytwiddle]

My vote goes for an option to simply remove the watermark if the user doesn't want it.

Assuming it defaults to adding the watermark, In the UI we could offer a checkbox to the user:

• [x] Add watermark

Or alternatively:

• [ ] Remove watermark

(I guess I prefer the first one, but only slightly.)

I'm not sure where/when it would appear in the UI. Perhaps the checkbox could appear immediately after the user starts recording.

[lionleaf]

Do you envision this option being only for the author of the dweet, or should I be able to get a gif without watermark from your dweet?

It would seem reasonable for the user to be able to get gifs of their own dweets without a watermark. Just need to figure out a good UX around it :)

(And we should still make the watermark itself better for people who want it)

[joeysino]

Are these GIFs going to be used as the thumbnail that Twitter/Facebook display when someone shares a dweet?

If so, I think all the thumbnails should be consistent, and always hide the watermark (since the thumbnail will be connected to a link anyway).

[joeysino]

But if we are talking about users generating GIFs from other people's dweets, I personally don't mind users turning the watermark off. But it should default to on.

(Other authors might feel differently...)

[lionleaf]

@joeysino These are generated on the client side, so will not be used as thumbnails for social sharing. It's for users to generate and save as gif files and then manually post wherever they like