# H uploadedes Bild skaliert nicht passend für Mobilgeräte

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [13. März 2018 um 09:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploaded-picture-not-scaling-to-fit-for-mobile/82885 "2018-03-13T09:04:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [13. März 2018 um 09:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uploaded-picture-not-scaling-to-fit-for-mobile/82885/1 "2018-03-13T09:04:21Z")

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Guys,

I’ve noticed that the ‘thumbnail’ of uploaded pictures is not completely scaled-to-fit, it is cropped when showing in portrait view on mobile.

Might it be more sensible/possible to scale-to-fit the pictures instead, so the right edge always shows? Currently it can lead to awkward looking composition, e.g. chopped off objects or half people.

Let me be more specific - this is particular an issue on iPhone 6/7/8 and landscape images which is a very common use case.

This would also presumably have the additional benefit of reducing the thumbnail vertical real-estate which on mobile is clearly scarce.

Thanks!

PS Any way of hacking this via Theme/CSS, similar to request [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-not-getting-posted-in-their-full-size/70510/9)?

Refining my search criteria to see if this has been asked before, reveals the following, but former is CLOSED, however I feel this is still an issue in a very popular use case:

> [@Feature Request: Tall and Thin Image Handling](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-tall-and-thin-image-handling/43573):
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> I think this is a feature request. We have users putting images in posts, and sometimes those images are quite tall, i.e. height much greater than the width. Discourse provides an image preview in the post, but uses the image height within the post height to determine the aspect ratio. An example image looks like this: Ideally we’d like to present this image so that the image width takes the full post width, but perhaps shows a ‘More…’ link at the bottom. The ‘image viewer overlay’ (n…

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-not-getting-posted-in-their-full-size/70510/5](https://meta.discourse.org/t/images-not-getting-posted-in-their-full-size/70510/5)

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