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I genuinely don’t understand the way albums are displayed on the timeline in the latest UNA version. Is this really supposed to be considered beautiful? From what I see, there’s no improvement in fact, it feels like things are only getting worse with each update.

Images and videos are now displayed in distorted, awkward layouts. Is this seriously the final version? The container is restricted to a fixed vertical size, which looks terrible especially when someone uploads a vertical image, which is what most people naturally capture on their phones these days.

The way photo albums are handled in the timeline is also a problem. When a user clicks on photos within a timeline post, they only get a limited preview through the Feed Item Preview widget, typically showing 4 or 5 images. While this might make sense if the Albums app isn’t installed, once it is, clicking on a timeline photo post should open a proper embedded album viewer, allowing users to browse the entire album right from the timeline.

Right now, unless someone clicks the album link, they have no way to view the full set of images and that leads to a confusing and disjointed experience, especially with larger albums. There needs to be a unified photo viewing system where the timeline integrates seamlessly with the full album viewer, letting users navigate all photos from an album directly within the timeline.

If UNA insists on embedding albums into the timeline, then do a proper, full embed. Otherwise, it’s just a mixed salad of partial previews and missing images. There’s no point in allowing users to upload 20 pictures if only 4 or 5 show up. When an album is posted to the timeline, clicking on any of its photos should open an embedded viewer within the timeline, allowing you to browse through the entire album without leaving the post.

In my opinion, there should be a single, unified field widget for both the timeline and the albums,so users can choose what kind of visualization to apply to that widget. This inconsistency is confusing for users and makes album browsing unnecessarily complicated especially for albums with many images. Ideally, this unified widget should also support integration with external JavaScript libraries like lightGallery, PhotoSwipe, Colorbox, or others. That way, site owners can customize album viewers according to their platform’s needs.

Unfortunately, with UNA , there’s never been clear documentation or guidance on how to replace or customize the jQuery-based album viewer either, which made things equally restrictive there. If UNA can’t manage to maintain a simple JavaScript album viewer properly, then at least give us the option to plug in whatever third-party plugin we want there are plenty of excellent, modern JavaScript libraries out there already. There is no point in building new ones that don't work when there are so many options. All that needs to be done is build a universal widget that external libraries can be added to.

https://photoswipe.com/

https://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox/

https://www.lightgalleryjs.com/demos/thumbnails/

...etc

There are countless functional examples in Drupal; you don’t need to reinvent the wheel, just put the wheel on the car, polish it, and it will run smoothly. How can we say that UNA is a CMS if it can’t even manage some images?