Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24409505-20150316142626/@comment-24409505-20150319085504

DEmersonJMFM wrote:

Ohmystars wrote: Ohmystars wrote: unless you can show me statistics that 90%... Irrelevant as I was stating my personal view I respect your personal preference and understand it, but we're talking about a feature that is implemented in all wiki's, so we shouldn't look at what an individual user prefers but what is good for all wiki's. In order to do that, we can use some survey to gather opinions and ask everyone which ratio they prefer, but much easier is to look at statistics of all uploaded images on Wikia. If it turns out that the majority of the images are indeed landscape-orientated, then the decision to use a landscape-crop is justified since it will look good for the majority of the images. However, if that is not the case, then we should think about a solution that also takes portrait-orientated images into consideration.

DEmersonJMFM wrote:

Ohmystars wrote: You can't choose to support one and ignore the other. Of course I can. I like landscape images better. I think you misread my words. I am not talking about "you" as in "you, DEmersonJMFM", specifically, but more in the general sense. I meant to say that a crop system that is designed to work for all wiki's should be able to support both orientations of images. "You" (the system) can't just ignore a certain group of images in favor of another, but should take both into consideration. Any feature on a website should be designed and coded in a way that tries to satisfy all audiences, no matter what format of media are inputted or what kind of device is used to view.

DEmersonJMFM wrote: I'll rather sacrifice some images for my preference or edit them in a way to reflect how the system works. Maybe in your case the majority of images are landscape-orientated, then you would be able to sacrifice some images. What if 90% of the images in a wiki are portrait-orientated, then would you sacrifice 90% of the images in order to satisfy the tiny 10%?

Also, it would be really sad if users have to edit images just to reflect the crop system with a debatable image ratio. Especially if that ratio might even be changed at any time, then we would have to re-edit all the images again. The crop system should instead be able to make all the images look good without users having to edit anything, otherwise give users the option to turn the feature completely off for wiki's where it looks ridiculous. Or even better: give each wiki individually the choice to choose the orientation of the cropped images.