No crop. No multi image. I’m really enjoying how intentional people here have been with their posts. Maybe those two things help (maybe not).

Curious what people think on this - given the community here we wanted to give a bit more real estate to media, and thought it was important not to crop content.

Needing to pay monthly for 1080 video is gross

I want this place to be beautiful, I’m here for it.

That said, portrait photos from phones don’t work great here due to image ratio and grey side bars. Maybe limit previews to a bunch of standard ratios. 3:4 & 2:3 seem to look the best.

There goes my no-crop argument 😓

Maybe give people an option, like in Tweetbot, where there was a preference setting for displaying images as full or just a small thumbnail next to the post that you could enlarge. I’d welcome something like that.

I’m more in this camp. I feel Twitter didn’t respect, nor celebrate, the media. Much prefer how it’s handled here. I’m more interested in seeing the visual than reading the hot takes.

+ 1 on @reynoldsj’s take here. Tho if the quality of the content wasn’t so great it’d probably seem clustered. 

I’ve noticed I engage with content a lot more on here than I might on other platforms. Probably has something to do with the no-crop take

Interesting take. I guess I am more prone to seeing all at once and a bit finger-lazy. ☺️

Here’s what I’m struggling with: the lifestyle imagery is fine but they are far too big. I like READING about what people are THINKING about. Right now I have to scroll a great deal and sort through the media to pick out people who are trying to start a conversation.

i like it uncropped! as @reynoldsj mentions it gives the platform an editorial feel, especially as the quality of the content usually is high

Definitely agree on not cropping. I’m thankful that is not a concern when creating posts. Are there any plans to do multi-image posts like Twitter? Like a 4-up? In that case, I guess it’d be interesting how you could even approach that without cropping.

So far, I think I enjoy the larger content. I think it feels more editorial and works on the clean canvas of the app.

Ok hear me out, I actually love that there’s no context and I am forced to choose just based on what catches my eye instead of based on what my circle is already engaging with. I feel like it opens totally new connection possibilities.

I think the challenge is that on the feed, it takes too much effort to see what people are responding to and then to come back to the feed. Would be great to see context for the reply.

On Twitter you can disable images. I used it for a long time like that.

Fwiw I struggle w/ this on Twitter too If I wanna consume imgs/video I wanna do so in a format that’s more celebratory/full screen. Right now its put into a text based feed. It interrupts reading flow and doesnt yet feel like the best way to house media. Feels stuck in the middle

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