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Myztiq | karma 60 | avg karma 1.5 · 2021-03-11 16:53:42+00:00

I'm somewhat surprised twitter hasn't gone ahead and implemented something like this themselves. Kudos for building a solution!

einaregilsson | karma 703 | avg karma 8.68 · 2021-03-11 17:33:27+00:00

Thanks It was fun to build.

p1mrx | karma 6431 | avg karma 3.24 · 2021-03-11 21:54:36+00:00

Letterboxing has been deemed Ugly by modern web designers. Better to discard useful content until it looks nice.

ziml77 | karma 4073 | avg karma 2.52 · 2021-03-12 04:45:05+00:00

It 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 | karma 8044 | avg karma 2.53 · 2021-03-12 09:11:54+00:00

And DVDs, Sony did this to Visconti's masterpiece Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa, monsters

stunt | karma 2678 | avg karma 2.45 · 2021-03-11 22:17:42

Twitter is making some changes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26416065

dmitriid | karma 7372 | avg karma 1.15 · 2021-03-12 08:50:47+00:00

This 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.

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