4 pictures in post

[mkostera]

Pitch

Mastodon should allow more pictures in post at least. Ideally without limitation.

Motivation

Different Fediverse software allow add more pictures to post, but it's not visible in Mastodon. This reduces the usability of Mastodon.

[joaoGabriel55]

I can work on a solution for that @mkostera!

[joaoGabriel55]

@mkostera I think that would be good think in another limit number, cause allow the user send photos without limits can generate some side-effects. The Twitter case, only accept 4 images as Mastodon.

[joaoGabriel55]

What do you think @Gargron?

[cdp1337]

I'm whipping up a solution for this on my personal fork, I set the arbitrary limit to 24 images just to not overwhelm the server too much, but still allow the user to select more images at a time. I'm also "fixing" some Javascript by moving the presentation logic of image sizes and positions into the CSS where it should have been in the first place.

If Gargron is interested in this feature, I can put together a merge request once it's complete, otherwise it'll just live in my personal repo.

I'm not opposed to increasing the number to something higher than 24, but given how Mastodon is built, it's hard-coded in a bunch of places to expect something. What'cha think? 24 good enough? 48?

Working (dev) screenshot of a post with 14 images attached

[mkostera]

. I'm also "fixing" some Javascript by moving the presentation logic of image sizes and positions into the CSS where it should have been in the first place.

If you mean ordering of picture, then PLEASE make merge request ASAP. It's really annoying bug.
#24462

[ismailghedamsi]

I really need this. Every day I post new images of hip-hop albums that dropped generally there is more than 4 albums that dropped and on Friday it's over 20

@mkostera I think that would be good think in another limit number, cause allow the user send photos without limits can generate some side-effects. The Twitter case, only accepts 4 images as Mastodon.

The more advantage Mastodon have over Twitter the better. Also, Instagram and Facebook also allows 10 pictures.

[tejunk]

It would be great to see the solution.

[ileodo]

I'm whipping up a solution for this on my personal fork, I set the arbitrary limit to 24 images just to not overwhelm the server too much, but still allow the user to select more images at a time. I'm also "fixing" some Javascript by moving the presentation logic of image sizes and positions into the CSS where it should have been in the first place.

If Gargron is interested in this feature, I can put together a merge request once it's complete, otherwise it'll just live in my personal repo.

I'm not opposed to increasing the number to something higher than 24, but given how Mastodon is built, it's hard-coded in a bunch of places to expect something. What'cha think? 24 good enough? 48?

Working (dev) screenshot of a post with 14 images attached

@cdp1337 great work! do you have a clean commit (or PR) for that changes in your personal fork?

[ileodo]

#29073 made this PR as a baby step.

[cdp1337]

@cdp1337 great work! do you have a clean commit (or PR) for that changes in your personal fork?

I try to maintain branches with each individual feature I implement so others can cherry pick what they want to port. My version was on the 4.1 codebase so it's out of date now, but working tonight to port it to latest 4.2 stable, (it'll be available under features/4.2-whatever-issue-number in my personal repo when I'm done).

[ileodo]

@cdp1337 thanks! I found that a few days back and made a #29073 PR to unify all the magic number 4 first.

[cdp1337]

Oh nice, I see you're using a configurable parameter in your version! That's a good idea; I was contemplating doing that in my fork, but ultimately opted against unnecessary complications in the code. This has been a feature request for at least 4 years, but Eugene has thus far refused to deviate away from a fixed 4-tile concept.

[ileodo]

I can feel that. from my point of view, even it has to be 4, this magic number has to be unified. (so people have different idea can easily config their instance differently).

also in the instance api end point, there is a field max_media_attachement, not sure if that means the community want it to be a configurable parameter.

[ileodo]

#29073 is passing CI and ready for review&merge