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Tankie goes on a rant about this community and throws in a quick Uyghur genocide denial -- They just can't help themsevles
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Is your screen 14 inches tall? Even in landscape mode you'd have to flick the screen back and forth and back and forth and back and forth...
Blorp on my phone didn’t like rotating at all. It skipped 37 picture posts ahead every time I tried.
I think I’m understanding this comment correctly. There’s a known bug with Blorp where the feed skips around when the screen size changes. I assumed people wouldn’t change their screen size often, but this long image is actually a great reason to rotate your phone.
I don’t have the bandwidth in this release, but I should work on stabilizing it so it doesn’t skip around when you rotate.
Pixel 7, Boost app, I click on the image, rotate, and it's quite readable. Firefox was basically the same.
I guess it would be different if my near sight was bad and I do sympathize with people that are having trouble. Maybe it's not a bad thing to encourage more narrow screenshots or, as in the case of many communities, encouraging textual captions for images.
Ask me again in a couple years once I'm past 50 and I may have different answer.
that's good for the screen though. it likes it