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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I am sorry guys but I guess it is an issue with your clients, the image has a pretty high resolution.

Ask the author of your Lemmy client for a fix :D

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

It's not a client issue. It's a lemmy/instance-specific issue. Look at the following link in your browser, then tap the image to expand. You will see bad image quality. https://lemmy.world/comment/11323036

Edit: Works fine with my vger.social account. Looks like shit on lemmy.world.

Edit 2: Looks like shit on sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world. Which are both running very outdated 0.19.3. Looks great on feddit.org, vger.social, lemm.ee which are running up to date version of Lemmy (0.19.5).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, I'm on world, but using sync as my client and the image opens to full res when I tap on it. So it is at least something a client can fix.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Probably because Sync on your phone is connecting/downloading directly from Imgur, which is bad for privacy. Voyager uses the image cached on your instance, if possible, to avoid connecting to arbitrary hosts to load images when browsing your feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Oh ok. Well I probably like this better. If it had a toggle in options, I would toggle it this way. But it sounds like it should have a toggle in options at least. For all I know, maybe it does.

[–] TwilightKiddy 1 points 3 months ago

A lot of instances did not upgrade yet because of the awkwardly implemented tagging feature.

https://programming.dev/comment/11433091

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I'm just scrolling on Sync and everything looks crisp and fine even zoomed in

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So on Voyager, if you click the image, then use the three-dot menu to select “open in browser” it will open the high res image direct from imgur.

Otherwise yeah it’s viciously downscaled

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's a problem with lemmy.world, likely due to running outdated lemmy 0.19.3 (looks great on lemm.ee, feddit.org, vger.social)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Works for me on voyager

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Really cool chart.

Not sure if OP is among us, but a couple of thoughts (meant constructively):

  • "Map" seems like the wrong word to me - chart maybe?
  • There's a typo on Tolkien/Tolkein
  • "Age of Discovery" might be disputed by the people already living in the places "discovered"

Very interesting though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Pitfalls of the English language as a German:
card – die Karte
chart – die Karte
map – die Karte
...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ah, I see - makes sense, thanks :-)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why is "Business Leader" a category? What actual business leader has had any kind of long term effect on mankind? Gutenberg is the only one that comes to mind. Why are we acknowledging business leaders contributions when the biggest criticism of them as people is that they don't contribute?

Legit love the pirates covered as business leaders though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

also entertainers vs artists seems arbitrary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Id argue they don't need an effect - they are known, this is when they lived.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Does the vertical positioning of the lines mean anything? It's useful to see people who existed at the same time, but I wonder if there's a better way of grouping like people rather than colour and toss them anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Kinda sad to see that Donatello wasn't alive at the same time as the other ninja turtles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

First thing I noticed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I saw Gollum as the poster and was expecting a timeline of middle earth characters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Genghis Khan was a contempirary of St Francis of Assisi? And Thomas Acquinas came after Francis? Wild.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I see that it's a 4562 x 5090 (23.2MP) resolution png photo, it appears very readble to me. Is your client showing a downscaled version or do you really need higher?😅

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I guess probably downscaled

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Voyager on Android downscales it as well, it's original res when I open it in the browser.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Voyager does not downscale

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thanks for your explanation above

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Thunder seems to keep the original image in preview :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's a problem with lemmy.world, likely due to running outdated lemmy 0.19.3 (looks great on lemm.ee, feddit.org, vger.social)

Not a client issue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It is hi res - if you are using Boost for Lemmy when you open the image, look in the upper right hand corner and hit HD - that will load the HD version. It's just loading the smol version to be faster for you, you can adjust that in your settings I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's a problem with lemmy.world, likely due to running outdated lemmy 0.19.3 (looks great on lemm.ee, feddit.org, vger.social)

Not a client issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So on Voyager, if you click the image, then use the three-dot menu to select “open in browser” it will open the high res image direct from imgur.

Otherwise yeah it’s viciously downscaled

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hey, cool. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks!

As a workaround I had been using open in browser when needed but I'm happy to learn about the HD button.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It is high res, what client do you use?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ivan the Terrible is wrong by 2 centuries. The picture has him as 1754-1793, somehow after Peter the Great, but he actually lived 1530-1584. That's a really weird mistake

The didn't confuse Ivan the Terrible with Catherine the Great, because she lived 1729-1796 so those dates don't match either

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Catherine the Great is included further down with correct dates, but only as "Royal" instead of "Tsar".