Bryan HanselJul 4, 2023

For new Mastodon users, you likely aren't seeing art and photos fully. Most instances crop images by default, and if you don't want to have to click on images to see them fully, you need to turn off the setting.

Turning off the setting makes the Mastodon experience better.

Go to your settings. Find Post Layout. Uncheck the box next to "Crop images in non-expanded posts to 16x9." Enjoy art and photos fully.

#MastoArt #photography

Show threadDrJankenstein
@bryanhansel is there a better way to make them load on shitty connections? Twitter seems to do it way better, especially on desktop
Jul 5, 2023 at 3:45amWeb
Show threadBryan HanselJul 5, 2023
@DrJankenstein not that I know of. Mastodon isn't stellar when it comes to handling images.
Show threadDrJankensteinJul 5, 2023

@bryanhansel one of these days, the FOSS community will care about graphics.

it'll probably be the day after they start caring about UI/UX

Show threadBryan HanselJul 5, 2023
@DrJankenstein there's a bug tracker/feature request for better image handling. Hopefully, they tackle it.