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Feature request: high-res image for Picture of the Day
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From Testflight screenshot feedback:

The “picture of the day” in the Explore tab and in the widget seems to use a low resolution version of the image. While it looks fine at the largest widget size and “ok” but not great when expanded to full screen on an iPad, it looks terrible and pixelated when zoomed in as shown in the attached screenshot. If I press the “i” button to go to the image details, there is a higher resolution version available which has a lot more detail when zoomed in to the same level, but the app doesn’t seem to use it. I’d like to be able to zoom in to the picture of the day and see the full level of detail. If bandwidth is a concern, I can’t speak for other users but I’d be willing to pay a few dollars a month for an “HD picture of the day” subscription which would enable the full res while providing a recurring donation to support wikimedia.

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@JMinor @Tsevener Jumping into this now and I totally remembered why I chose to use the smaller image variant for the widget at least. These full res images are very large – for example, today's is 50 MB. That exceeds the soft memory limit of the widgets by a good deal. Compare this with 220 KB for the displayed version.

Sorry about my enthusiasm for this one, but can we save it for later? I'd like for us to think of a more responsible solution to provide higher quality images to folks that is also applicable in the widget and doesn't needlessly use a ton of storage/data.

Yep, I'll put it back in backlog and we can revisit in future.

ABorbaWMF subscribed.

Looks high res to me on iPad Pro on 6.7.2 (1771)

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