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.
@feditips @Gargron Takes up a huge amount of space right now, check out this GitHub comment: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26132#issuecomment-1649263201
@feditips
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.
@feditips @Gargron Also obnoxiously tall in @IceCubesApp
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.
@ericheiken @feditips @Gargron
Yeah! Definitely need to remind myself to search through the issue tracker or file a feature request.
@feditips @Gargron I thought this would be a more convenient way of viewing this remarkable graphic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=got07wxkOoM
@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 @tkk13909 @Gargron just found this and looks like, because it uses frames, bypasses the question: https://thenib.com/im-a-luddite/
@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)