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<h4 class="article-title"> <a href="https://eggplant.place/@klu9/posts/622435208573356736/">Latest NeoDB /Eggplant changes: collections on Home</a> </h4> <figure class="article-cover"> <img src="https://eggplant.place/m/user/493760729350908978/2026/09/14/5fc753b6-12dc-4175-bfe4-5413392a7f15.webp" alt="" loading="lazy"> </figure> <div class="article-body"> <p>TL,DR: NeoDB collection cover images on the NeoDB Home page used to be best in portrait ratio, so I purposely made images in that ratio. Now the Home page crops those images to squares &amp; my images look terrible on the Home page, often with the collection&#x27;s name cropped completely or partially out of the square. What to do about this?</p><p>Now, the long version 😉</p><p>When I first started making collections on Eggplant.place, there was only an empty rectangle &amp; no text representing the collection on my Eggplant Home page. So I had to make &amp; upload my own collection cover images, so that I&#x27;d know which was which. Usually with the collection&#x27;s name as text in the image itself to make it immediately clear what the collection was.</p><p>E.g.Cover image for the Monsterdon collection. Includes text for the collection&#x27;s name.</p><p>For each new collection, I&#x27;d design a cover image with text for the collection&#x27;s name. Through trial &amp; error, I realized things like:</p><p>Portrait ratio was best for the Home page. (Landscape &amp; square images would get shrunk to fit the width of portrait ratio images.)<br>300x200 seemed the ideal dimensions (or at least, the easiest to remember)<br>Preview cards for collection URLs posted on Mastodon would be more square, cutting off top &amp; bottom, so more recently I&#x27;d try to make sure for collections that I frequently post to Mastodon that the collection&#x27;s name was not at the extreme top or bottom, so it would be visible in the Mastodon preview card.</p><p>The latest changes to NeoDB/Eggplant.place have changed the display of collection cover images, from 5 whole images to 3 squares, with the top &amp; bottom of portrait ratio images cropped. (Cropped even more than the Mastodon preview cards?) The cover images on the collection pages are unchanged.</p><p>All those cover images I made expressly for the design of the NeoDB Home page are now terrible on the Home page, with much/most/all of the collection&#x27;s name cropped out.</p><p>Here&#x27;s how the Sunday Funnies cover image looked before.</p><p>And the WestWed cover.</p><p>And here&#x27;s how they look now on the Home page:Nope, my screenshots are in Webp format &amp; NeoDB won&#x27;t let me upload a Webp in the body of an article. So see the Featured image at top (where, for some reason, I can upload a Webp🤷‍♂️).</p><p>Sunday Funnies name now half cropped out to just Funnies.<br>WestWed name cropped out completely.</p><p>Not sure what to do now:</p><p>I do the work all over again of making cover images for each collection but redesigning them as squares... wondering if they&#x27;ll still be zoomed/cropped/otherwise modified, now or in future.<br>Resize/reshape them to distorted squares. Much easier, but a bit ugly.<br>I just leave them as they are.<br>Other?</p><p>&quot;Squared&quot; examples (option 2)</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://eggplant.place/@aubergine/" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>aubergine</span></a></span></p> </div> <div class="article-tags"> <span class="tag">#NeoDB</span> </div>