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?
I am so happy to learn that Discourse has a carousel mode, which lead me to learn that it has a grid (gallery) mode!
I’m a Discourse newbie, still working out the kinks in my migration from phpBB. One of the issues for me has been the provision in phpBB for attachment comments, for which there is no similar provision in Discourse. However, running a ruby script in the import container, I’m able to extract phpBB attachment comments from the mysql database, and assign them - when present - to uploads in Discourse, italicized as shown below:
I love that a post can be gridded! But the upload comments bear no apparent relation to the upload after applying. What’s curious, is that while text from the post (intended as captions) appear here in grid mode, they don’t appear at all in carousel mode.
I suppose this is a feature request, and should be moved there; because in general, I think the absence of a way to bind a comment to an upload is a serious omission. And it’s particularly manifest, when you grid an existing post.
OK, I’ve added what I think is a reasonable compromise. I ran a ruby script that grids sets of uploads without captions (two uploads or more), and ends the gridding when the first caption is encountered:
I’m happy with this outcome. Gridding certainly reduces the amount of scrolling, and I get to keep my captions. I’m a happy camper! I learned today about a most excellent feature of Discourse. Thanks!
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). And, let’s be honest, could it really be worse than what’s already out there? 
