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.
@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/