# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 20
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/gvra2jq
@eaplmx Naming conventions be damned, but if a pixel is discolored (even ever so slightly, to the point where no one would ever notice) or misplaced, I will not sleep, until things in this world are right again!
Not to mention some sites image resizing capabilities, that blur or stretch a part of the image and make me violently angry, so I’m glad Yarn is not one of them, unlike Twitter or Facebook/everything made by "Meta".
@thecanine OH really? 😳 Do you mean we actually handle media _correctly_ in your opinion? 🤔
@thecanine OH really? 😳 Do you mean we actually handle media _correctly_ in your opinion? 🤔
@prologic Don’t know how they work exactly, but I don’t think I’ve seen any profile pictures appear blurry or stretched.
@thecanine No media ever uploaded to any pod is ever "stretched". Aspect ratios are preserved no matter what. We do downscale uploaded media (_now keeping the original as well_) for bandwidth/performance reasons, but what you see is your choice and/or the pod owner's choice and you can change this in Settings 👌
@thecanine No media ever uploaded to any pod is ever "stretched". Aspect ratios are preserved no matter what. We do downscale uploaded media (_now keeping the original as well_) for bandwidth/performance reasons, but what you see is your choice and/or the pod owner's choice and you can change this in Settings 👌
@prologic Downscaling is not as much of a problem as upscaling, as some sites do that using weird methods and especially in case of pixel art, using anything other tnan "nearest neighbor" for resizing can be really damaging to the quality, to the point where some artists advocate that sites should offer their users a choice between multiple methods of resizing for their art, if the website ever plans to resize it.
@thecanine Looks like we use (_currently_):
> LanczosResampling is a Lanczos resampling filter (3 lobes).
Should we change this to NearestNeighborResampling? 🤔
@thecanine Looks like we use (_currently_):
> LanczosResampling is a Lanczos resampling filter (3 lobes).
Should we change this to NearestNeighborResampling? 🤔
@prologic The problem is that "nearest neighbor" resizing is the best option for pixelart, but using it to upsize other art or even photos will make them more blocky.
If you only ever downsize both of these methods should produce good results.
@thecanine We only ever downsize, never upsize. We'll keep the original you uploaded and optionally serve that if you want. that's it. This even means GIFs now work (_sort of_) 😅
@thecanine We only ever downsize, never upsize. We'll keep the original you uploaded and optionally serve that if you want. that's it. This even means GIFs now work (_sort of_) 😅
@thecanine @prologic yes! GIFs work fine in lightbox/gallery view. GIFs don't animate for inline 😂
@ullarah, but why wouldn't animated GIFs not work while inline? Is it the processing being done whilst uploading the image? That (processing) was the issue before, and the reason I opened issue 560 over two months ago. With so much work done to show images in different ways, is there a reason this hasn't been addressed yet? What say you, @prologic?
@fastidious They work "Inline" for me, but "Lightbox" and "Gallery" show them in the exact same way and they don’t move in the app or when "Use Original Media" is turned off.
In “Lightbox” and “Gallery” they also do not move in the box that pops-up, when they are clicked.
@thecanine Got a demo I can view on some Twt somewhere? 🤔
@thecanine Got a demo I can view on some Twt somewhere? 🤔
@prologic I was being a bit too vague. The popup box doesn't have them moving only when "Use Original Media" is on, which makes them move on the page, but not in the pup-up.
I was testing all this on the Twt that I just posted, that has three identical gifs of bouncing canines included in it.