Hey there!
Thanks for bringing this up - I've created a PR to handle this issue here: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1709. Feel free to take a look at the demo video in that PR and let me know if this is what you meant!
Wow, thanks for taking a look. Yeah, the post in the example is a weird one, and also was blurry using the thumbnail from my instance. I'm sure that a post like that is an edge case, really the only image I've seen like that on Lemmy. I was talking in general for images which are taller than the display, that require a lot of scrolling on the page.
Based on the video, it seems like in the full height image setting, it's being cropped to fit the height of the device? That wasn't quite what I meant, and was thinking that in the feed page and post page, the instead of being cropped to fit the height, the image would be resized to fit the display height, maintaining the aspect ratio. Basically the way you see it when you first click on an image with a long post.
I would imagine that there are people who do like the current behavior of scrolling through full sized images through the feed, so perhaps this could be a different type of view in between card view and full height images if that makes sense.
I switched to thunder from connect recently and had the same question. As it happened I was in GitHub for something else and looked it up, it's a known issue because instances don't have picture height as part of their meta information so the only way to find out how big an image is would be to load it. Something to do with the way thunder is designed precludes this.
Next Lemmy version gets around this issue, once the instances start switching to it.
This is great news! Thanks for looking it up. Was it this PR: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1594 ? Seems like it's been merged, so hopefully will be released soon!
That's the one I meant, yes
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