Request
Let the user edit the caption and choose a thumbnail before a post is cross-posted
to Instagram. Today it publishes straight through with no chance to adjust either.
Current behaviour
lib/instagram.ts:91-125 sends the snap body as the caption and has no thumbnail
field at all:
const payload: Record<string, unknown> = {
hive_author: session.username,
hive_permlink: args.permlink,
body: args.body, // ← this is the caption
tags: args.tags ?? [],
image_url: args.imageUrl,
video_url: args.videoUrl,
permalink_url: args.permalinkUrl,
};
The call is fire-and-forget immediately after the snap publishes
(maybeCrossPostToInstagram in app/(tabs)/create.tsx), so there is no moment in
the flow where a review step could slot in today.
What this needs
- A review step between publishing the snap and cross-posting — caption field
prefilled from the body, thumbnail picker for videos, and a way to skip.
- Caption decoupled from the body, so the Hive post and the Instagram caption
can differ.
- Thumbnail support in the payload.
Blocked on an answer
Items 2 and 3 depend on what POST /api/skatehive.app/api/instagram/post actually
accepts. If the endpoint only ever derives the caption from body and picks its own
frame, this needs API work first and the mobile UI can't be designed around it yet.
Question for whoever owns that endpoint: can it take an explicit caption
separate from body, and an explicit thumbnail URL for video posts?
Note
Video thumbnails are now available: the transcoder returns thumbnailUrl and the
app records it in json_metadata.images (#26), so a real frame exists to offer as
the default thumbnail rather than whatever Instagram picks.
Suggested label: enhancement, mobile, blocked
Request
Let the user edit the caption and choose a thumbnail before a post is cross-posted
to Instagram. Today it publishes straight through with no chance to adjust either.
Current behaviour
lib/instagram.ts:91-125sends the snap body as the caption and has no thumbnailfield at all:
The call is fire-and-forget immediately after the snap publishes
(
maybeCrossPostToInstagraminapp/(tabs)/create.tsx), so there is no moment inthe flow where a review step could slot in today.
What this needs
prefilled from the body, thumbnail picker for videos, and a way to skip.
can differ.
Blocked on an answer
Items 2 and 3 depend on what
POST /api/skatehive.app/api/instagram/postactuallyaccepts. If the endpoint only ever derives the caption from
bodyand picks its ownframe, this needs API work first and the mobile UI can't be designed around it yet.
Question for whoever owns that endpoint: can it take an explicit caption
separate from
body, and an explicit thumbnail URL for video posts?Note
Video thumbnails are now available: the transcoder returns
thumbnailUrland theapp records it in
json_metadata.images(#26), so a real frame exists to offer asthe default thumbnail rather than whatever Instagram picks.
Suggested label:
enhancement,mobile,blocked