Warpcast

Would it be possible to let users select actual text in casts on mobile?

There is this tendency in mobile apps to prevent selecting text. Many SNS apps like that, as well as web sites (used to it in a country where a lot of text has been *images* for decades to “protect” copywriting IP).

Scientist and engineer interested in Life.

Work on (GOF)AI, Agriculture, Biology, Energy, Robotics, Space---all topics climate-aware.

As a non-native in many languages (who would have guessed?) I like very much selecting a word and get the phone look it up.

I have been wanting this feature as well. Even in reply mode, it’s “copy the whole text” or nothing, so I cannot selectively quote a passage from the parent’s cast. It’s a bit annoying to have to paste the whole text in Notes and do it from there. It would be a nice QoL improvement

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Thank you, yes. I target single words.

Like when I don’t understand clearly what a word means. E.g. solipsism, serendipity, ersatz, umwelt, zeitgeist, homeostasis, gestalt, democracy, shanzai, ad hominem, reductionism, gerrymandering…

On iOS text, long tap a word and “look up” is often super helpful.