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.
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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.
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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So far, I think I enjoy the larger content. I think it feels more editorial and works on the clean canvas of the app.
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.
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).
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 😓
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.
i like it uncropped! as @reynoldsj mentions it gives the platform an editorial feel, especially as the quality of the content usually is high
+ 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
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.