Ideas regarding pictures
I've tried to add several modifications regarding pictures to diaspora* recently but they revealed to be controversial. So I open this thread to discuss about it.
The first one (#6244) is about modifying the way pictures are resized on mobile view. Currently, the largest size is resized down to 300px which appears to degrade image quality for pictures that present a big height (associated issue: #6248). As proposed by Steffen, this PR resizes width to 300px and crop height to 500px if necessary.
My opinion is that this is a nice solution, used in association with the Bluimp gallery on mobile, to improve navigation on stream with lots of images.
The second is about displaying full-size images inside the gallery on desktop view (#6549). I think resize images down to 700px on desktop view does not make sence anymore. Some users are posting beautiful images on diaspora* but one can't benefit seeing them correctly because they appear really small on large screens.
Michael Dagn · Fri 29 Jul 2016 8:28AM
I'd love some ideas for a local lightweight image resizing proxy for mobile views.
Large images can take ages to render on some older phones.
(large images probably need too much ram on the phone)
not sure if it can be done without needing too much ram on the server.