Do your pictures get lost within the gridded photo patchwork? Are they awkwardly cutting off crucial bits? Would you like them to be center stage? Despair no more – the feature you didn’t know you wanted has landed!
As the more observational amongst you may have already noticed, we have added a new gallery mode. You can now choose between the classic (masonry) grid and the new, focussed carousel mode. Switching is as simple as selecting the option in the top-right corner of the gallery in the RTE[1] :
We’re aware the keyboard navigation can be finicky; we’ll improve it in a future update
On mobile, swiping gestures are supported – so technically Discourse could become the next dating app[2], truly cementing our “anything goes” flexibility.
Nice to see images getting some more love in Discourse!
I literally had the thought to do this for the MVP of a dating project a few years back (I didn’t end up doing it ). And, let’s be honest, could it really be worse than what’s already out there?