Pandacap: Part 3 - Creating Posts

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Pandacap: Part 3 - Creating Posts

From a public-facing perspective, Pandacap is essentially just a single person's art gallery (and blog, microblog, and profile, I suppose). One of Pandacap's philosophies is that fundamentally different kinds of content are separated, so there are three types of public posts:

• Artwork - a single image, with a title and description.
• Journal entry - essentially a blog post, with a title and text.
  
• Status update - text, with an optional attached image.

These are, not coincidentally, three of the four DeviantArt post types. The paradigm of Pandacap - the context in which it assumes you're creating and uploading your posts - is heavily based on art sharing platforms like it, some of which predate the rise of general-purpose microblogging.

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