Integration Photos in Messages
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Hi Everyone Okay here goes. ?You are now going to see how horrible at technology I am. Our group integrates some facebook messages which always contain photos. ?When we started this the pictures were so massive in the messages that we had to stop. ?However the photos are important an our soution was to moderate the integration posts and then manually resize the pics to about 450x450. We've been working with the facebook people and have got them to make the photos they post smaller. ?I suppose facebook automatically adjusts the size of the photo on screens. ?Most of them are now about 800x800 but bigger ones get thru on occasion. ? I think Mark has now done ?some sort of auto sizing of pics this for groups.io?? This morning I viewed a 800 x800 photo on my iphone and it was fine. ?No having tiny font or scrolling to read. So my question to you is do we need to keep moderating the photos? ?
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LeeAnne,
Our group integrates some facebook messages which always containYour group has a setting for that: "Max Photo Size In Email". You may have had it set to "No resizing" and another moderator changed it? A weirdness is that a bugfix reported on Jan 20 implies that those photos should have been resized anyway: "o BUGFIX: For messages originating in email (not web), we resized inline images to a max of 640x640, regardless of what the group settings were. Now, we are consistent with how web posting works, in that we resize to the max of (640, what the group size is)." /g/beta/message/12720 But maybe messages from a Facebook integration would be treated as messages originated by web, or maybe none-of-the-above. I'm not sure. In any case I think the intent is that the control in your group should work regardless of where the message originated. If it isn't working that would be something to report to [email protected]. I'm also assuming that these images were "inline" (in the message body) not an attachment to the message. Though I'm not sure that distinction matters - it did once but I remember Mark being concerned that users often can't tell the difference. Another issue is that there are changes afoot regarding Facebook integrations. Also reported in that #changelog posting: "o CHANGE: Investigated issue with Facebook integrations, found out they don't work anymore because of Facebook, and disabled adding new ones for the time being." So my question to you is do we need to keep moderating the photos?I think I'd have to have a Facebook integration (which I don't) and do some testing to figure that out. And then it might change due to the changes Facebook is making (or has made) to the interface Groups.io uses for integrations. So I'll give a magic 8-ball answer: "Cannot predict now". Shal |
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Thanks Shal! We don't allow photos in messages but I'll try switching the max size. ?I think I had tried this before and it didn't help but who knows now. ?No one changed the settings it is still on "No Resizing" Yes the photos from the facebook integration are in line. ? I think, if I'm following this correctly, that the bug fix on Jan 20 is the one that helped us immensely. ?I will keep a sharper eye on the integrations. ? Again, Shal, thank you. ? Your patience with these questions is appreciated. ?Your answers and explanations make computers much less frustrating. ? --? -LeeAnne?Archivist |
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Well never so quickly to things get resolved. I changed the picture size in settings to ?488 x488 at 8:03 this morning. ?A facebook integration came in at 8:09! The photo was still 720 x 720. ? I approved it even though it was larger than we'd like. ?However, the size is fine - as long as it doesn't force people on cell phones to run for a magnifying glass to see the tiny text. ? ?Archivist |
LeeAnne
Shal Farley