# Turning off auto-grid-images?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/turning-off-auto-grid-images/335450
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 10, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turning-off-auto-grid-images/335450 "2024-11-10T13:16:03Z")
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### Author: ![Richie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/richie/32/115110_2.png) [@Richie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Richie)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2024, 7:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turning-off-auto-grid-images/335450/14 "2024-11-12T19:01:32Z")

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Thanks Lindsey :slight_smile:

> [@lindsey](#):
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> It’d be helpful for us to understand your concerns or problems

Our community is a very heavy user of photographs, with over half a million images on our Discourse now.

One of the problems we face with auto-grid being automatically applied is that 99% of our users don’t know what it is, that it is being applied, nor how to remove it.

Why might this be an issue?

~96% of the photos our community shares are landscape in orientation, not portrait.

Auto-gridding crops the images a user uploads rather dramatically, chopping the edges off and turning landscape photos in to portrait photos to the naked eye :cry:

One community member even accused us of modifying their photos.

 ![Screenshot 2024-11-12 at 18.45.24](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/b/b/7bb89fabc312ca07bc62c5da2578f9308eb1abec.jpeg)  
 ![Screenshot 2024-11-12 at 18.46.15](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/6/3/763659e4631d60d14c217baec270b4eee50c8d76.jpeg)  
 ![Screenshot 2024-11-12 at 18.42.56](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/6/7/3/673fc9836f2586a54e4725a6774688897cd4c1da.jpeg)  
 ![Screenshot 2024-11-12 at 18.47.31](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/1/c/a/1ca5c2729341c1ca6693350f274a6ec2894a4e0c.jpeg)  
 ![Screenshot 2024-11-12 at 19.03.34](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/a/f/8afab75e90118d774229c6eb35233e6077f58668.jpeg)

There is perhaps some irony in my landscape screen shots that I just uploaded now not being landscape :pensive:

Our fear is that we are just several days in to this new feature, I can’t imagine what the coming weeks and months will be like :see_no_evil:

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