The new Pixelfed mobile app will preserve media aspect ratios, no need to tap to view the full image as photos will be rendered to preserve native aspect ratios
John @dansup I like it, this is one of the reasons I switched to Pixeldroid. Looking forward to the new app.
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Just a question: where can I find the version of my app? How can I find out there is an update?
Pixelfed 
@dansup this was the thing that bothered me the most about the pixelfed app. Happy to see it fixed
@dansup actively you took on the improvement lately, a lot of cool solutions applied, cool, waiting!
@dansup I think this might be of interest to @mattblaze.
@dansup Nice! I just gave Pixelfed another try today and was sad that this seemed not be a setting I could change. Lots of cut-off heads in pictures otherwise ^__^
@dansup Looking really forward to that update!
I found most bothering that even if I tap open a pic the viewport stays limited to the area it takes when fit to the screen by its width.
So pinch zooming is limited to a annoying small area with any landscape formatted image.
Maybe that's fixable too? 