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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.

@Gargron

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.

FediTips has moved!

@Xucaen

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?

@feditips @Xucaen

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. 🤔