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   punchescars@420.vin's status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 20:52:22 JST punchescars

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   I’ve noticed people use the #MastdonBug hashtag for this sort of thing, but in this case I think @maybeanerd has the answer. That is, any client can choose an aspect ratio. Perhaps a diligent client would preview a thumbnail that matches the aspect ratio of the original image.

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     I think the developers' aim with the 16:9 thing is to make the Home timeline more pleasant to scroll by keeping images a uniform size, to give it a tidier look. The issue was that very tall pictures would take up a huge amount of the timeline, while very wide images would look incredibly small.

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     @punchescars @gilesforyou @maybeanerd @noondlyt

     Yes, you can do that on the web interface and certain apps. You can set a focus point for the image, and it will crop the preview based on that. On the Mastodon web interface click "edit" on the image attachment to set its focus.

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     IIRC, it’s possible to set the preview frame to capture the important region, but it seems authors often neglect to use it.

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     It was probably a fast & simple way to make things presentable.

     But certainly it would be possible to cap the width & cap the height, and make the thumbnail fit therein w/original aspect ratio. It would theoretically be even more readible if they did a LaTeX wrapfig of sorts, so the text wraps around the image. But I guess that’s tricky in HTML.

     The biggest annoyance is the preview truncation which forces me to expand every image.

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