Turning off auto-grid-images?

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No updates yet, but we are actively discussing it! One question on our minds is whether this is more appropriate as a user setting or a site setting. In other words, should admins control whether / when images are auto-gridded, or should that be something individual members can determine for themselves.

I’d love to hear what you all think about that! Here’s a quick poll but please do respond here with the reasons that motivate your choice.

The auto-grid feature should be controlled by…
  • A site setting. Admins turn it on or off for everyone in their community.
  • A user setting. Members turn it on or off for their own posts.
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(No doubt there is a “both” option, where admins set the default for the community which individual members can tweak, but we’d like to see if we can manage with something simpler to start.)

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Given that the primary issue is that users fail to understand what the grid tag is, how it works or what it is doing, it seems like the solution wouldn’t be to put the choice on them to have it on/off.

If it is a user-based choice I think it needs to be off by default.

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I agree, for this reason:

I also can’t help feeling it’s too granular a setting for a user to have on their profile.

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My vote is, it could be a hidden site setting with default true. So nothing changes just we have the ability to turn off.

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Hello :wave: I have some positive feedback :star_struck: I think after this commit FIX: Regression allowing async calls to finish before removing upload… · discourse/discourse@c911909 · GitHub I don’t see any broken image in grids and grid tags also added correctly. Thanks for the improvements @keegan :hugs:

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I don’t recall seeing any image upload issues.

The issues we’re suffering with broken and orphaned [grid] tags all over the place are due to people accidentally deleting part of the tag itself while they’re creating their post.