Image Carousel / Slideshow

[felipebueno]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Not exactly a problem, just an UX improvement

Describe the solution you'd like
When zooming an image, allow the user to slide/swipe through the other images of that post or comment

Describe alternatives you've considered
Closing the zoomed in image and clicking/tapping the next one

Additional context
It would be much easier to navigate through the images of this post, for example

[ekzyis]

I discussed something similar with @Natalia:

She mentioned that she would like to upload multiple images at once and then all images would show up as one image (a collage of them) and clicking on it would trigger a slideshow.

Currently, she edits multiple images into a collage herself like in this post. If she doesn't do this, the layout of her post gets destroyed by too many images.

Just wanted to mention this here. Having a slide show for individual images would be the first step before we create collages. For collages, some things aren't clear yet anyway like how opting out of them should work. I don't think you always want to create a collage just because you uploaded multiple images at once.

[felipebueno]

Having a slide show for individual images would be the first step before we create collages
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I don't think you always want to create a collage just because you uploaded multiple images at once

Yeah, I think those are separate features too

[huumn]

I think if you upload multiple images at the same time we should just put them into a markdown table for you.

[felipebueno]

That would be nice too but I think the slideshow/carousel thing would still be useful for when we tap or click to open an image. Then we would be able to swipe through the other images without having to close the current one

[huumn]

You're right, carousel on click would be cool and collaging is a distinct issue.

[felipebueno]

I was going to work on #943 but I think it's too advanced yet for my little time and little knowledge of the codebase.

I think this one would be a simple enough feature to start with. @huumn Can I (or you) assign it to me?

[huumn]

@felipebueno you should be able to assign yourself to stuff - you have triage perms.

[felipebueno]

I know, I was just making sure nobody else was working on that already 😁

For the next issues, I'll consider them "vacant" if it's not assigned to anyone 🙂 👍

[felipebueno]

cooking... :)