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The amount of hassle there is to actually get a view of this without installing it is quite a bullshit task.

From the readme, you have to navigate to an entirely different repo, which contains only contains a handful of preview files.

Even then, they are all gifs, so if you wanted static content you're out of luck, as gifs are pretty much the incorrect format for lengthy content such as this. Files average 6-10MB each, so if you're actually on mobile, github won't preview them (how nice, they think of my data plan).

Consider ShareX [https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX], who quite some time ago did strip out their entire readme for putting more information on their own website, but they still have a gif showing a majority functions from their application. It's less than 200kb, because someone decided to optimise their content to an acceptable extent




Thank you for your suggestion, I'll add some static previews in the main repo README.




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