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I'm somewhat surprised twitter hasn't gone ahead and implemented something like this themselves. Kudos for building a solution!
by Myztiq 6y ago
I'm somewhat surprised twitter hasn't gone ahead and implemented something like this themselves. Kudos for building a solution!
- einaregilsson 6y agoThanks It was fun to build.
- p1mrx 6y agoLetterboxing has been deemed Ugly by modern web designers. Better to discard useful content until it looks nice.
- ziml77 6y agoIt was deemed ugly long before that. TVs have been defaulting to stretching/cropping to avoid letterboxing or pillarboxing for years. And before that, movies were converted with pan-and-scan to fill a 4:3 TV.
- jjgreen 6y agoAnd DVDs, Sony did this to Visconti's masterpiece Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, monsters
- stunt 6y agoTwitter is making some changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416065
- dmitriid 6y agoThis would be a solution to a problem that Twitter created themselves. They decided to crop the images using "advanced algorithms" (which in reality works worse than random()). The only solution is for Twitter to stop cropping the images. Problem solved.