Topic: Why photos are wide
metalwing's photo
Fri 01/30/15 03:58 PM
I was just curious. Many of the profile thumbnail photographs appear in proper proportion but when you click on them to see the "blown up" version the photo appears wide and distorted.

Is this a Mingle thing, a problem with the posted photo, or a problem with the computer viewing the photo?

tta1128's photo
Fri 01/30/15 04:14 PM
It's a problem with M2. It's kind of weird to have a dating site where you can't proportion photos to look right. You either have to have it a perfect square and even then I think they are distorted.

metalwing's photo
Fri 01/30/15 04:38 PM

It's a problem with M2. It's kind of weird to have a dating site where you can't proportion photos to look right. You either have to have it a perfect square and even then I think they are distorted.


Thanks! I looked at your photos and couple of them look like they were squashed! But some looked good also.:wink:

mightymoe's photo
Fri 01/30/15 05:04 PM


It's a problem with M2. It's kind of weird to have a dating site where you can't proportion photos to look right. You either have to have it a perfect square and even then I think they are distorted.


Thanks! I looked at your photos and couple of them look like they were squashed! But some looked good also.:wink:


the last pic looked "compacted", the rest were ok...

soufiehere's photo
Sat 01/31/15 01:21 PM
Indeed, a site issue Joe...but I hear reloading a square photo works.

charles's photo
Sat 01/31/15 01:47 PM

It's a problem with M2. It's kind of weird to have a dating site where you can't proportion photos to look right. You either have to have it a perfect square and even then I think they are distorted.


It's certainly not ideal and it hasn't always been like this (perhaps obviously), but it's where we have to be for now. It was done for purposes related to the app, but we will be able to make it more forgiving in the future.