Why are images so bad on the app?

Mr_Pink_152 · December 20, 2020, 5:59pm

Just wondering why the images of beers are so bad on the app.

As an example these are some screen grabs.

Rate beer app

Rate beer website on mobile

Untapped app

Only untapped Is readable. The rate beer images are awful with the app being worse than the website.

Mr_Pink_152 · December 20, 2020, 6:04pm

Another example

Rate beer app

Rate beer website

Viper666.Qc · December 20, 2020, 6:06pm

When you upload a picture, it is compressed to a 10-40 ko “webp” format. It still looks ok somehow on desktop but the App doesn’t render it correctly. @services

services · December 21, 2020, 2:03am

We can look at updating the app, the image sizes are dynamically generated on our image service.

Let me know which images seem low res, I noticed the expanded beer image could do with a higher resolution, so I’ll updated that.

If there are any others, feel free to list, and I’ll pop out a new build.

Regards,
Services @ RateBeer

services · December 21, 2020, 2:07am

With this image, it looks like the original source that was uploaded was quite low resolution… I’ll update that now with a higher resolution image.

Mr_Pink_152 · December 21, 2020, 8:03am

Thanks, I would say about 80% of the images of beers I rate are of such low resolution on desktop that the label is unreadable. As I find them I will post on here.

services · December 21, 2020, 10:57am

@Mr_Pink_152

Thanks, some of it we’re at the mercy of the upload, others we can change. The more it’s highlighted though, the better we can try and find some good source material for higher res images.

Regards,
Services @ RateBeer