Patreon emails not showing full images

Yay! Thank you so much for going the extra mile and investigating this! I really appreciate it.

??? I never got a single patreon mail __including__ a single image (except emoji as part of the text). They just spam externally linked img tags including cross-site ones all over, and no sane human would allow a mail client to actually follow those in a commercial mail.

It was frustrating to see them mess up like that. Also affected another comic creator i follow.

You're amazing Jeph!!! I look forward to QC every morning!!!

They also replaced their icon with an ugly white-on-black one and screwed up the site layout with a sidebar I can't even extend when on a 1280-pixel wide monitor.

Appreciate you doing that. I normally click though as noted above but when travelling, the email view is useful.

I'm betting they just want more creepy cookies and tracking from the website but thank you for finding out whats going on!

Personally I don't need perks to support you. QC is the best where ever it is seen. Love you, bro!

that and the weird left hand always open thing, as opposed to the 'I'll open it when I want or need it'

Indeed, we all seem to have realized early that it was a Patreon thing. Sucks that they don't give artists a heads up before such changes.

Thank you! This is fairly important for me. Patreon doesn’t publish an RSS feed, so I forward the emails to my feed host to still get it in there

I really appreciate you rattling the cage on this. I usually click through to like the posts and see if there are any fun comments, but I like being able to read the comic in the email, and just leave it in my inbox for later if I don't have time to click through yet.

i just love that you have the ceo's personal number 🤣

I'm figuring they want more people to click through to the website. Need to get those views!

thank you!

Thanks, Jeph - yer a pal!

It seems like they're cropping to a specific aspect ratio, though I've seen mails with multiple inline images that were fine. So maybe we could work around this by having the comic be an inline image in the text, rather than as a primary "shared a new image with description" post. Could alternatively trick the fitter by adding big white padding to the sides, but that'll probably produce unreadably tiny images... Though ultimately - no big deal, tech is always weird and we can always find workarounds. No reason to spend too much worrying on it.

I noticed that a few days ago. Figured they were just trying to drive up traffic to the site.

Oh good I was wondering what the deal was!

Thanks for the heads up, Jeph.

They did this once before, if I recall correctly. Sooner or later it's just going to stick. They want to Drive Engagement or some crap like that, I'm sure.

Thanks for looking out for us Jeph!

Ironically, this post was fully readable in the email version. ;-p

I'm here for the comics AND for the crowd. For me, they can't be separated. I always click through to the site so I can have both together, simultaneously. Jeph may provide the fuel, but it is my fellow Patreons who provide the spark, the flame, the inferno. And the ships. So many ships have been launched by this crew, only to either sink or sail over the horizon. This is one of my favorite places, period.

It’s all good.

Thank you

I'd noticed and coped, but I appreciate you following up.

I prefer to read the comic on the QC website the day it's officially published, so this is actually a feature for me.

It doesn't bother me since I always click through to at least like the post, if not comment.

I noticed the change, but since I always click through to the site to get a higher-resolution image, it didn't bother me.

thanks for addressing that - it often takes several extra steps to get logged in and view it otherwise

Thanks! It was annoying and petty to have to click the image to see it. I would still support you anyways, but that sort of friction does make it less interesting to support comics creators on Patreon.

If you create a post with the images inlined, they show up fine, it's just "image as image" that gets hacked up.

I always read it in the app anyway