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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.

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@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.