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I'm seeing the same thing, stretched images. It's very annoying! When I go to a group discussion, all the images are stretched. If I run the cursor over the images, it goes back to normal size. This is not a horizontal issue. All images posted are either small or medium size. The images are stretching vertically. Once I run the cursor over each and every one of them to get them to the right size, refreshing or posting a new comment screws them all up again.
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Exactly ! This is not a "Large" size image issue being duscussed in that other thread linked above.
Again, any help? Thanks.
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What browser are you folks using?
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ATT/Yahoo browser.
Just started happening yesterday. I haven't done any software upgrades.
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should be 887 x 487 - as of yesterday this is shrunk to 500 pixels on the longer side, which in my case makes the lettering unreadable
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Andy101,
The problem in this thread doesn't deal with "Large" size images.
It deals with "small" and "medium" images being stretched in group thread comments.
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Bryan Olesen Which of the photos in the thread you linked in the OP are "stretched"? I ask because I do believe you're seeing something, I just can't replicate it using Firefox. Or is it every image in that thread?
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It is the same problem and is the result of changes that were made recently at flickr, however if you are that much of an anal thread Nazi that you are more interested in maintaining the on topicness of your precious thread than finding answers then I will go somewhere else.
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Andy101 I believe you are looking for this thread:
flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/70433/
And name calling is a great way to get a time-out on the mat. Please don't do it. It's a sure way to not get people to help you.
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zyrcster wrote Andy101 I believe you are looking for this thread:
flickr.com/help/forum/en-us/70433/
That thread was closed by staff. I don't think, though, that they're going to reintroduce large images in posts. Just use a small version and give people a link to the large size. If they want to see it, they can click and see it.
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zyrcster, in the link I provided, the first 4 landscape oriented images are stretched vertically, and the last portrait oriented image is shortened vertically.
Actually, the height of Andy's image above is about twice as tall as it should be after I refresh this page...
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Bryan Olesen edited this topic 2 months ago.
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Weird, because I really am seeing them in that thread exactly as they display on the photo pages (not stretched) whether I use Firefox or Safari. I don't have the browser you're using. Have you tried using another browser?
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I'm not seeing any difference in proportion between the in-comment size and the photostream size of those images.
I'm using FF 2.0.0.14 So it is apparently how it's being displayed by your browser than a problem with how Flickr is sending it.
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No, Colleen, not quite. Flickr did add some code to the style sheet for a class "notsowide". I just checked the source, and this thing seems to check for the notsowide only on IE.
I'm about to fire up Windows to check this.
Bryan, if you edit one of those comments in that thread and remove class=notsowide from the img src tag, does the image correctly display?
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I just tried IE6 and got the same results.
Strange. The only other thing I can try is rebooting the DSL modem but that wouldn't make sense. I cleared cookies and files and rebooted pc.
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Here's what in the source for the page:
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img.notsowide {
behavior:expression(fixMaxWidth(this));
}
</style>
*lt;![endif]-->
And you will note a new field in the img src tag when you add an image to a comment (this seems to get added after post, because it's not in the embed code or on the All Sizes page.
class=notsowide
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Bryan, I imagine that the Yahoo browser is Internet Explorer.
Try it using Firefox or Safari -- both of which you can use on Windows.
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They look right to me. That first pelican is awesome, too.
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I'm having the same problem. I tried 2 different browsers. That "notsowide" code is not there. It's nearly every picture on every discussion I go to, regardless of size.
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What browser are you using?
I agree, that pelican rocks.
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What 2 browsers did you try? If they are derivatives of IE, I suspect you'll keep getting the stretching thing.
[edit] yes, that notsowide code is there. On the 1st pelican one, it's:
<img class="notsowide" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2125/2492005633_cb7cfebd2b.jpg" width="500" height="310" alt="on its way..." />
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I tried IE and AOL. Is AOL an IE derivative? I don't have Firefox or Safari.
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zyrcster wrote What browser are you using?
IE 7.0.5730.11 and Firefox 2.0.0.14.
edit - the "notsowide" thing is there, and seems to be standard; the height info varies image to image
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Lú_ edited this topic 2 months ago.
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I'm not sure about AOL (they used Netscape and IE for a while at various stages).
Firefox and Safari are both free downloads for Windows.
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Yup, finally got Windows fired up, and I can confirm this bizarre behavior in IE 6.
For now, until staff checks this out, I suggest using Firefox or Safari. Again, both are free downloads (and you'll see better color in Safari). :)
[edit] or use IE7.
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Yea, notsowide is new, it wasn't there previously. I run a challenge group like Bryan's, so I see a lot of html.
I bet this is specific to the IE6 engine, then, Steph, since you don't have it in IE7.
Time to upgrade!
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Thanks for the confirmation. Thought I was going crazy. Will look into one of the other browsers.
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Thanks guys. Appreciate the help. Does this thread itself notify the staff?
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To be even more specific, when using IE6, when I first see a photo in a discussion thread, it is stretched vertically so that the entire image is 500x500 regardless of its true proportions. Hovering over the image returns it to its correct proportions, and then it sticks for good.
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Yes, it does.
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I had been thinking there was an issue on my machine for the past three days!! Glad I'm not the only one seeing this problem. I'm using IE and if I go back and forth a few times most of the images display properly.
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I'm also experiencing this problem (in IE 6). Nearly every picture in every group discussion is stretched out of proportion and I have to move my mouse cursor over each one to get them to resize to the correct proportion. It's a real pain!
Flickr staff - can we have some indication that you are aware of this problem and are working to fix it?
Thanks
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same problem here.
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fatminky
Since it is 4 am on Monday morning in California, I suspect you'll need to wait a while before Flickr staff gets to the office and starts working.
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I've sent a bug case to the relevant developer. He'll look into it.
Sorry for the trouble.
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Good point Colleen. But surely there should be an international support team working round the clock to ensure I am always receiving a five star flickr service ;-)
Thanks for reporting the problem and letting us know Dunstan.
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the same thing here... I was wondering why someone posts pics like that, but then I saw another one and another... every pic is strange and you see all the pixels and... really annoying, I hope you'll fix it soon...
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Blasted IE 6! :) Thanks for the report. I noted this when we were originally implementing the "max-width" feature, but thought I had fixed it. (I also noted it didn't seem to be an issue with IE 7.) It's on my to-do list.
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Thanks for the status report, I'm just so pleased it isn't my machine that is playing up :-)
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thank you .schill :)
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It's still happening. Come on Schill, work faster!!
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It's been happening to me for a couple of days. IE7.
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fatminky
In the US, we're on a 3-day holiday weekend. Business will start up again on Tuesday morning.
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Or, use any other browser but IE6 until they do fix the problem. It's not like there aren't a ton of free ones out there.
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tuesday morning?? it's a little bit annoying, it started over a week ago and earlier it was fine. I don't want to download another browser until they fix it, sounds crazy... :/
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Just saying, you have the ability to work around it until it gets fixed.
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"Use another browser"
Ehh, no.
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IE6, AOL? *cackles* Well, bless your hearts, dears.
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I've been patient, but now I'm losing it. This problem is still going on, as it has been for the last two weeks. About half of all the pictures I look at on Flickr are in discussions and they are all being stretched out of shape and look crap.
Please can someone fix the problem, this is a service that some of us are paying for after all, and don't tell me to install another browser as I shouldn't have to change my software to work around a problem you have created.
Thanks
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It's even happening with those flashy gif awards in comments now.
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Thank goodness I found this thread, because I was getting a headache from head-butting my monitor. This "feature" is pretty freakin' annoying.
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Hey folks,
I've pushed a change which may fix this issue - for the record, this is one of the strangest IE 6 bugs I've ever encountered; it's inconsistent, highly annoying and difficult to reproduce. I've tested in IE 6 SP0, SP1 and SP2 and it seems to be showing up only on the first two versions from what I've seen.
Please note in your reply if the issue is fixed for you, or is still occurring. Thanks!
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.schill,
Still occuring as of today. Images stretch to 500 pixs.
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Well, like I said, IE7
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I still have the problem.
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Bryan Olesen: Large images in comments should be limited to 500px width as a maximum, by design.
We made a change several weeks ago so user images in comments would be limited to 400 pixels in width - to prevent breaking the site layout and avoid unnecessary horizontal scrolling.
We then realised that 400px didn't seem right, given medium-size images on Flickr are 500 pixels and most people just wanted to post medium-size images in comments.
Thus, images displayed inline in comments are limited to 500 pixels in width - and should be shown vertically at the appropriate scale. (eg. a 1000 wide / 500 high image would be displayed at 500/250 pixels.)
There was a bug reported where people were seeing images being resized horizontally, but the vertical scaling part was messing up - ie., the image width changed but the height did not properly resize. Let me know if you're seeing something along those lines with the vertical aspect. Thanks.
Update
I made another tweak to the resizing script, to force oversize images to scale their height properly as well. This applies to IE 6 and IE 7. I still have one test machine (IE 6 on WinXP, SP2) which is misbehaving, though reloading or moving the mouse over the image seems to fix things. Very odd. Still investigating - thanks for your patience.
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Still happening here. IE 6.0.2900 SP2, Win XP SP2. Place the cursor over them and they shrink to their proper size.
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.schill
We only allow medium sized images in our group.
These are both before-and-after a cursor over the image.
Here is what I'm seeing for a "landscape" oriented image:
Here is what I'm seeing for a "portrait" oriented image:
Thanks for your time...
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Yep...IE 6.0.2900 SP2 here, and it's still happening.
LOL @ Bryan Olesen's post...because the images of the problem exhibited the problem themselves.
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I don't know much about the technical details but I have an idea that the problem gets worse.
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Still happening, seeing it in small posts too, now (in threads), before it was only the medium posts. Maybe there's progress?
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Update:
Hey folks, I've made another change for the image height goofiness as shown in the screenshots above. I'm still investigating the issue, but I think there's been some progress.
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Thanks for letting us know you are working on it, but unfortunately it is still happening for me in IE 6 SP 2.
Small and medium landscape pictures are being stretched taller.
Small and medium portrait pictures are being squished shorter.
Is there anything we need to do to ensure we have the updated flickr code, eg Ctrl+F5?
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Actually pressing Ctrl+F5 stretches all the pictures back out of shape again, so I don't recommend doing that!
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Last weekend I thought there was been progress indeed.
But now images stretch and shrink again like they did last weeks.
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I was away last week. I feel like it's a month or so and nothing has been done...
~sigh~
wish you good luck.
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Sorry to say I'm seeing the stretching even on the "Comments you've made" pages now, as well as the embeds in group threads. :/
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I don't see any stretching, but I'd just like to say that I really don't like the fact that the page now "bounces around" so much as each image fills in. It used to be that by having the img height/width attributes in the HTML that the page could render properly and then the images would fill in. Now, it bounces up and down constantly, which means you have to wait until all images have loaded before you can read anything on the page.
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So, what's the status on this now? Because in Firefox I get a lot of bouncing images that are all medium sized regardless of their actual posted size, but in IE now the large size is displayed in discussion threads again.
Can we have this be consistent?
I have members of my groups arguing, "No, it's not posted in large" because they see medium when they post a large if they use Firefox and then other members saying that "it is the large size, get rid of it" because they're viewing it in IE... and I have a handful of confused moderators that don't get what it means to go check the html in the comments to tell what size the image really is.
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Not only is this problem still going on, but it's getting worse!!!
Now some pictures do not change to their correct size when I move the mouse over them, and if I go on to another web page and then come back lots of the pictures get stretched out of shape again.
I'm finding it really hard to believe that a business that revolves around displaying images would allow a problem like this to go on for so many weeks. If this is happening for IE 6 and IE 7 users, then surely a large number of your customers are experiencing the problem. And the problem is a big one because basically... STRETCHED PICTURES LOOK SHIT.
It seems that in trying to tackle the problem of people posting large size pictures to discussions, which did not occur very often, and admins could always delete them anyway, you have created a much larger problem. So please roll the Flickr code back to the way it was before and don't implement this change until you have ironed out all the bugs.
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It's 21st June and this problem is still going on!!!!!!!!
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fatminky edited this topic 4 weeks ago.
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2008.06.22 .....same here....
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Yes, I am still seeing this in IE7.
EDIT: "This" being the vertical scaling problem.
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-RobW- edited this topic 4 weeks ago.
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2008.06.23
images still stretch and shrink, very annoying!
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2008.06.25
Aside from still seeing the original problem, now some images are not "clickable" (linked), so we cannot go to see the large version.
See last image in ths challenge: www.flickr.com/groups/c-c-c/discuss/72157605761563373/
EDIT: Sorry, my mistake, the person didn't post the correct URL. My apologies...
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Any progress yet on this issue?
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No progress as far as I can see.
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I went into the link you posted in your last comment, Bryan Oleson, and the last photo cannot be called up at all, and I am on Firefox 3.0. The other photos in that link I can click and view.
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Did you see his edit? That is a non-issue right now. The person didn't post the correct url at first and then did.
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Any more progress with this? It's still happening, but now some pictures won't revert to their correct proportions on mouse-over.
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12 July 2008 - This problem is still occuring and if anything it has got worse. Please can we have some response from Flickr staff to tell us what is being done to fix this issue.
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07/13 - bumped this to see if there has been any progress... thanks.
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I'm having the same problem in IE6. Also, Flickr keeps locking up. Error message w/ Ctl - Alt - Delete - "not responding"
When I use Firefox, I have no problems.
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Same issue in IE6 here, just wanted to put a bump in. Glad to hear that it's being worked on, though. :)
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