Notices by punchescars@420.vin

@feditips Great that that happened! It exposes a significant flaw in the system. It was the 1st question that came to mind when I learned about groups. If Bob is a member of the tea group, surely not all Bob’s posts would be about tea, so it would make sense that Bob should have to mention the tea address in every tea-related post. The bot should only boost _members_ who _mention_ the bot.

@feditips
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.

@gilesforyou @maybeanerd @noondlyt

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

@gilesforyou @maybeanerd @noondlyt

@gilesforyou
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.

@feditips @noondlyt