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by politelemon 1409 days ago
Thanks for making this. From your comment, should we be able to zoom in with a mouse on desktop?

I think you could also consider a 'next' (previous too?) control to allow skipping something, but that might be more useful once there are many many JWST images.

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I guess I wasn't clear on the zoom. The zoom can be activated in the settings - but it's not a user-controlled zoom. Every new slide, it chooses a random set of bounds to display, if the image is larger than your viewport. I wanted to be surprised in seeing random closeup portions of those large images (especially the Carina and SMACS 0723 images), because there is so much detail that you miss otherwise.

If you want a user-zoomable interface, the official Webb site actually has them, for example: https://webbtelescope.org/news/first-images/gallery/zoomable...

As far as a next and prev, that would be easy, but I guess since the slideshow is only X seconds per slide, I didn't think it would be that necessary (at least to my use case) to skip or go back.

I agree that it needs a next/previous control.

Another feature request: Add upvote/downvote and later try to increase the probability of showing a photo with more upvotes.