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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.

FediTips has moved!

@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.

@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. 🤔

@Xucaen @feditips I had to scroll through a fairly regular sized image as well. Not happy

@feditips @Gargron
> will it take up a huge amount of the timeline

Yes, it appears so, lol

@feditips

... And hiding the image doesn't change the tallness .

@feditips @Gargron nice, please post more long interjections of reality into our timelines like this

@feditips @Gargron

You already have your answer, but I'll confirm with another detail.

I use the advanced desktop UI (the one with the columns) and it not only takes up a large space in the feed, but when I expand it, it is expanded but super narrow with no way to zoom to 100% on a click, so it's illegible on both the timeline and on the click.

@ericheiken @feditips @Gargron

Lack of zoom makes detalized photo and, especially, art sharing here a lost cause, IMO.

@vintprox @feditips @Gargron

Hopefully the steps we're taking to provide feedback is all it takes to improve the experience. It's a relatively young software, so don't lose hope.

@ericheiken @feditips @Gargron

Yeah! Definitely need to remind myself to search through the issue tracker or file a feature request.

@tkk13909 @Gargron

Yeah, this is more what I expected to happen. Otherwise trolls could sabotage timelines quite easily if there's really no limit at all?

@tkk13909 @Gargron @feditips several years ago, there was a meme shared on da’book- that did this and people felt like it was trolling. I didn’t, just playing with affordances. With this graphic, and the intensity of information presented, will people feel like it is trolling?

@MarkDilley @tkk13909 @Gargron

It's a good question. And some people do genuinely create very tall artworks, some webcomics use a tall format for example.

They assume however that the image will be displayed in a non-disruptive way. I don't know what will happen if every tall image is displayed uncropped and full width.

@feditips @Gargron Yeah, got to add "max-height: [something]; overflow: auto" or the like.

@feditips @Gargron that graphic was annoying in the feed.

@feditips@mstdn.social @Gargron@mastodon.social I kind of like what misskey/firefish do (displaying images in a 16:9 box, but scaling instead of cropping)