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Photon for Lemmy

A client for the fediverse designed to be intuitive, fast, and beautiful.

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are the low res images intended? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by arakhis_@feddit.org to c/photon

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see spoiler-formatted section in the post for a more detailed image altough its the same source.

looks like some images are lower resolution over photon than over other frontends for no reason. It bothered me so much, looks like its only this frontend, isnt it?

is there a way to use photon differently to get full res because clicking the download icon (open in new tab) doesnt do it neither.

Will this be fixed?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/12010107

full res, somehow image posts are always for ants

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[–] Xylight@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Recent versions of photon should improve this (2.0). Based on what you posted before, you're using an instance hosting an old version of Photon. (this sort of thing is why I complain about instances hosting photon a lot)

Photon uses some obscure Lemmy API things to download images that actually fit the screen so you aren't wasting tons of bandwidth on 4k images on a 32x32 profile picture.

As far as I know, no other client does this when it really should. Because of this, Lemmy doesn't really support what I do all that well, and so the downscaling algorithm Lemmy uses causes images to look really low quality.

Are you using phtn.app or some instance's hosting of it?

[–] arakhis_@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

p.feddit.org