wordpress-mobile
Reader: Portrait Reader Images Cropped Too Much
Cropping portrait images is not a great idea when humans are on the photo. It usually cuts the heads off.
Similar scenarios happens in details: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/7f47b57f-be5c-4ab0-91fe-8c4fd29ac817.
It works as designed as covers have a required aspect ratio on both mobile and web. Mistakes bound to happen, but unfortunately, cropping happens too often as Reader displays random images from the post as covers https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues/24045. There are some clear issues with the current system.
There's an ongoing discussion to fix that in the web Reader by not cropping images and using max-height to restrict how tall they can be. I personally think portrait photos should be displayed properly. Cutting people's heads and feet to fit the design is not great.