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Appeareance of images attached to a post

Hello @Friendica Developers @Friendica Support @friendica-dev.mbbit.de/profile… Hello dear community, I would like to discuss with you about the appearance of posts with multiple images on #Friedica. Here is my opinion:
The current way multiple #images are displayed is awful:

Yeah, you saw it by my embedded examples your self. What bothers me most is:

  • It just looks messy (especially when there is a mix of landscape and portrait format)
  • Besides the aesthetics, multiple images take a lot of room (when you do not use an add-on like show more)


My suggestion on which I would love to hear your opinion is to use a grid format like on #mastodon:

I would pitch a suggestion by adding a PR for a (from my point of view) "better" appearance based to this
tutorial. I do not like to use JS in general and would leave it out by determine the suited amount of columns in the backend.

But before I invest time on that, I want to hear your feedback. Thank You!

#Mastodon #images #friedica @Friendica Support @Friendica Developers
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grischa

@grischa Well for my addon I did not had the necessity to find that place. I gets the content of a post via a hook.

For a theme I am not sure atm. I am poking myself. It depends. There seem to be different templates for different types of posts. wall_thread.tpl seems to be one.

It is more that I look into the developer console of my browser and try to find matching code in order to identify the template.

@Grischa
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Marek Bachmann

Dear @grischa I look in your add-on to copy a good practice for using the hook approach to manipulate the representation of attached images which is quite helpful for me. As I played around with fancybox I encountered the little issue that the gallery only includes the attached images prior and including the one you clicked on. I created an issue on github for that, okay?

[fancybox addon] Image gallery is created for only the images <= clicked image · Issue #12331 · friendica/friendica

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Gidi Kroon

@Marek Bachmann Standard Mastodon crops the images (in the grid, but even if there is one) and I wouldn't like that; that should at least be configurable. But I do agree that the Mastodon, Pleroma, Twitter, Tumblr way of showing multiple images looks better than Friendica.

You can achieve a better look when you post multiple images by putting an empty line between the tags of the photos. The preview will help getting a better look.

If implementing a Mastodon like thing, especially if some form of cropping could occur, can I then also note that Mastodon's 'focal point' feature is really useful. It prevents photos from being cropped in embarrassing ways.

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Spencer

I can see the value of this and generally like it. However, given that Friendica lends itself to larger posts than Mastodon, including posts that might use multiple images interspersed within the body of the text, I am wary of any solution that compiles all the images in a post and displays them as "attachments" at the end.

There are times when I want to use images in the middle of a post, and they'd become much less meaningful in a compiled cluster at the end of the post, even if they were in a much prettier grid.

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Marek Bachmann

Hi @Hypolite Petovan when ever you find the time, can you point me to the place in code where this attachment detection is already implemented? I was looking out for it, but was not able to find this distinction yet.
If there is a implementation, you can gladly add this info to the GitHub discussion since this might not so important for the readers here.

Am I right that there is no attachment feature for the creators of post, or is it? I never saw such an option yet.
My current assumption is that the term "attachment" refers solely to an implicit definition like "the media at the end of a post can be / is considered as attachments"

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Grischa

for what ever reason your account is always suggested twice in the autocompletion


This is because I wrote with two of my at least 5 accounts in this thread.. ^^

Marek's feature could handle the attachment pictures without touching the post illustrations.


.. and as I said: These images are collected in the "body-attach" div without any further processing (simply added and linked to). But you want an answer to something different, so I stop and hope you'll find your answer in the issue discussion. :-)

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Marek Bachmann

@Mihai von Glogowatz , @devadideva Totally agree with you. In any way, regarding the outlaying of multiple images issue and my current work on it, I can at least assure that images are included with the <img src="{{$image.preview}}" alt="{{$image.attachment.description}}" title="{{$image.attachment.description}}". So including the description is considered at his point.
The description for images from Mastodon are definitely obeyed on friendica. On Friendica you post you can use bbcode to add a description in this way:

-->

View from railway station Kassel Wilhelshöhe, Germany, platform 2, section B, heading southwards. You see the uncrowded edge of the platform and tracks, which are wet from the December snow rain. In the far background, a red regional train leaves from another platform to the south
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Marek Bachmann

Wenn Du ein eigenes Bild verlinken möchtest, geht es recht komfortabel mit diesem Button:

Bei externen Bildern müsstest Du den [img=quelle]Beschreibung[/img] Tag selbst erstellten, ja. Immerhin kannst Du die URL zum Bild selbst ja kopieren und einfügen :-)

Wenn ich Dich richtig verstehe, wünschst Du Dir die Möglichkeit "einfach externe Bilder mit einer Beschreibung einzufügen"?

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Marek Bachmann

Ne das, oder eine entsprechende Meldung, sieht jeder der dir nicht folgt bzw. mit dir befreundet bist.
Das ist ist KEIN Fehler sondern einfach die Einstellung für dein Profil (ob die nun bewusst war oder nicht ;-) ).
Ich bin gerade unterwegs, und kann daher nicht gut nachgucken, aber irgendwo in deinen Einstellungen kannst du das ändern (wenn überhaupt gewünscht).
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Marek Bachmann

Tatsächlich beobachte ich auch gerade einige Probleme beim Teilen von Bildern, insbesondere außerhalb von Friendica also zum Beispiel bei Mastodon. Ich werde das mal bei Gelegenheit präziseren, was genau wo nicht geht und verlinke dich dann in einer neuen Meldung.
Dieser Thread ist ja eigentlich für das Image Grid gedacht. :-)
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Marek Bachmann

Wie gesagt, genau darum geht es hier :-)
Das Image Grid wurde erst gestern in 2022.12-rc gemerged. Es kann sehr gut sein das dein Instanz-Admin @Steffen K9 🐰 die neuen Commits hoch nicht geholt hat.

Ich sehe aber gerade auch, dass die Bilder im eingebetten Link scheinbar tatsächlich nicht im Image Grid erscheinen. Kannst du mal auf den Link

https://friendica-dev.mbbit.de/display/fa8fe840-2163-95ff-eaad-d3d249610322


in meiner vorletzten Nachricht klicken und mir sagen, ob die Bilder dann im Grid sind? Danke.

@Steffen K9 🐰
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