Photographers and artists rejoice—just like in the official iOS and Android apps, pictures are no longer cropped to 16:9 on the web version of Mastodon. Link previews have also gotten a face lift, and will now show both the article date and author when available.
What happens if it's a really tall image, will it take up a huge amount of the timeline or is there a limit?
EDIT: Testing with the XKCD global temperature timeline.
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That's an obnoxiously tall image
That's what concerns me :/ I can see why people want to move outside 16:9 but you'd think there would be some kind of limit?
Limit is on home feed and other feeds, but not within threads. Works for me, as I don't have trust issues with image height in the threads I'm opening.
What bothers me is that many clients do not follow the focus point on images which have it set via Mastodon web interface. It cuts off the image to 16:9 aspect ratio in the wrong position, when viewed through other clients.