Please fix the jumping in images!

Yolo

It works with every other software. The fact that the upload function is handled by a third-party provider is sad. These are standard features. At least there's a private message function coming in 2.0...

luceos

Yolo The fact that the upload function is handled by a third-party provider is sad.

Third party providers have been able to introduce more features than core for every version we've released so far. Also, Upload was originally authored by yours truly, and was adopted by the Friends of Flarum for safekeeping. FoF consists of core and former core developers.

Just to clarify this notion of "it must be 1st party" makes zero sense.

KBExit

The upload function is not handled by a third-party provider. You can upload using FoF Uploads, which allows you to upload images and other files directly to the server your Flarum Instance sits on, or you can integrate S3 with it.
I personally use Imgur Upload, so I don't have to deal with user submitted files eating up my storage. But that one, indeed is a third-party solution.

Flarum, the software, is the simple core.
You add extensions to it. If this is an issue to you, I would advise against using Flarum. This is the foundation Flarum is built on for it's simple nature, elegance, and speed.

Trc4

KBExit I personally use Imgur Upload, so I don't have to deal with user submitted files eating up my storage. But that one, indeed is a third-party solution.

is this the way to go?
do you have still the jump problem?

Trc4

KBExit I personally use Imgur Upload

You certainly don't have a large community that has been spoiled by Meta 😉

Trc4

luceos Just to clarify this notion of "it must be 1st party" makes zero sense.

for us it makes sense too

KBExit

Trc4 Do you know what Imgur Upload is as far as an extension? You can upload an image natively in the composer on the site and it'll automatically embed the image to your post without ever having to leave the page.

Trc4 do you have still the jump problem?

Can you elaborate the "jump problem?" My images ain't jumping lol

CyberGene

I guess by “jumping” the author means a well-known Flarum issue with having images inserted into posts. Then the auto-scroll to the last post doesn’t work well and would gradually jump back to older posts because the image dimensions are not known prior to actually loading them. The issue has been commented a lot and I personally find it unacceptable too but fortunately there’s the (paid) extension called Rich Embeds which can solve the issue once proper settings are made.

KBExit

CyberGene Ah gotcha, I guess I never really paid any mind to that personally.

luceos

The fix is doable in upload though. While uploading, the backend needs to do two things:

make a thumbnail to exactly meet the width of the community
calculate the height of the thumbnail, store that

From that point the thumbnail can be stored on whatever driver is used. Optionally the original can be stored too.

It just has to be build. Similar to how the stale image functionality still needs to be completed.