Share a message
Share in any message’s … menu - your prompts and the model’s replies alike - opens a dialog with two tabs: the message as text, or the message drawn as a chat-bubble image. Loach uploads nothing itself: sharing hands text to your browser or leaves an image on your clipboard.
As text
The message as written, markdown and all. Copy puts it on the clipboard, or hand it to Facebook, X, Reddit or LinkedIn: Loach opens that network’s composer in your browser with the text pre-filled, trimmed to the length each one accepts (about 270 characters on X). Copy always takes the full text; the network buttons don’t touch the clipboard.
- Facebook - its share link needs a web address, so it carries Loach’s GitHub page with your text in a separate quote field.
- Reddit - the first line of the message becomes the post title.
As image
The same message drawn as a chat-bubble PNG that follows your current light or dark theme, captioned Prompt or AI Response and footed with “Shared from Loach”. The text is drawn as written - markdown isn’t rendered - and a long message is cut off after 48 lines.
Copy puts the image on the clipboard; Save writes the PNG (loach-message.png by default) through the native save dialog. Some Linux systems can’t put images on the clipboard; Loach says so, and Save still works. The social networks’ share links carry text only, so the image tab swaps them for Save.
The network buttons only open a pre-filled post in your browser - nothing is posted until you press the network’s own submit button, and no image is ever uploaded by Loach. If you just want the raw markdown without a dialog, Copy message in the same menu does that.