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This has just popped up and I wonder if anyone else has seen this

v4.4.0-alpha.1+glitch on infosec dot exchange

Firefox 131.0 on Ubuntu

Has anyone reported being unable to add an image to either a new post or a reply?

Clicking on "Add images, a video or an audio file" does absolutely nothing

Nothing pops up, the prompt simply vanishes

BTW, the "Draw something" prompt works as expected

Checking back (I bookmark everything I post) the last time I was able to add an image to a reply seems to be Oct 07, 2024, 06:46 PM for whatever that's worth

Saw nothing on Github; thought I'd ask here before posting something over there

#MastoAdmin #MastoHelp #ImagePosting

@mattblaze Boosted this because the original conversation was in the middle of the night/early morning European time. Would love to build some consensus around changing the cropping default for preview images.

Edit: Or better yet. Improve the image edit dialog so that you can scale the preview image view in addition to adding Alt-Text and altering the focus point. This would solve the cropping problem and just be awesome!

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze takes aim in a recent post at the absurd default cropping behavior for images (https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110380464934526966).

The one thing, besides dark mode, most responsible for turning off new users is that feeds display a bunch of incomprehensible image junk.

This should be changed, but this is how it is. What can you do?

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also here: https://medium.com/@mastodonmigration/sharing-advice-and-assisting-with-the-great-mastodon-migration-53c1a286b805#014e

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Test Image Focus Modification

These four panels show focus modification performed in the image edit window. By lowering the focus point it is possible to make the cat's face visible in the default cropped 16:9 views. By raising the focus point it is possible to show the beginning of a long text image in the default cropped 16:9 views. Note you can see the resultant 16:9 cropped version in the bottom left of each pane.

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Test Long Text Image 2

This is a long text test image uploaded to Mastodon to demonstrate image cropping. The original is 800 x 800 and posted with the focus modified to the top of the image. With default 16:9 cropping enabled it is possible to read the first half of the text in unexpanded views.

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Test Long Text Image 1

This is a long text test image uploaded to Mastodon to demonstrate image cropping. The original is 800 x 800 and posted with no focus modification. With default 16:9 cropping enabled the top and bottom are cut off making it impossible to read in unexpanded views.

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Test Short Text Image 2

This is a short text test image uploaded to Mastodon to demonstrate image cropping. The original 800 x 300 is modified to 800 x 450 by adding whitespace to the bottom, and posted with no focus modification. With default 16:9 cropping enabled the entire image is visible making it possible to read for unexpanded views.

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Test Short Text Image 1

This is a short text test image uploaded to Mastodon to demonstrate image cropping. The original is 800 x 300. With default 16:9 cropping enabled the text is cropped off both sides making it impossible to read for unexpanded views.

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Test Image 3

This is a test image uploaded to Mastodon to demonstrate image cropping. The 400 x 450 original is modified by adding whitespace to both sides to 800 x 450. With default 16:9 cropping enabled and no focus point modification, the entire image is visible for unexpanded views.

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Test Image 2

This is a test image uploaded to Mastodon to demonstrate image cropping. The original is 400 x 450. With default 16:9 cropping enabled and the focus point modified, the cat's face is centered for unexpanded views.

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Test Image 1

This is a test image uploaded to Mastodon to demonstrate image cropping. The original is 400 x 450 and posted with no focus modification. With default 16:9 cropping enabled the cat's face is chopped in half for unexpanded views.

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