Real photos open full size, collections sort by catch time
Three small fixes from one afternoon of spotting with a phone in hand.
The photo in the feed was cropped
When you photograph a ship or an aircraft in real life and upload it, the live feed shows the picture as a short strip. That keeps the feed readable as a list, but a wide shot of a container ship or a jet on approach loses most of what you wanted to show. There was no way to see the rest.
Now the strip is a button. Tap it and the photo opens over the whole screen, uncropped, with the name of the ship or aircraft, who took it and where. On a phone a wide photo still looks small when it fits the screen, so a second tap on the picture switches to its natural size and you can drag around it. Tap again to fit it back. The close button, the Escape key and a tap on the dark background all close the viewer.
This works in the feed tab of the in-game widget and on the /live page.
Finding the plane you caught a minute ago
The aircraft side of your collection used to sort by rarity and nothing else. If you had just caught an ordinary A320, it ended up somewhere in the middle of a wall of other A320s and there was no quick way to find it.
The aircraft wall now has the same sort chips as the ships side: most recent, rarest, most caught and name. Most recent is the default. It sorts the tails inside each type, and it also orders the type groups, airline shelves and builder shelves by their newest catch, so the thing you caught last is at the top of every view. The "All airframes" view follows the same choice. Rarest is one tap away if you prefer the old order.
Real photos on Discord
Real-life photos are the best pictures anyone posts here, and most of them were seen only by people who happened to have the feed open. They now also go to the #clips-and-shots channel on our Discord as a full-width image, with a link to the ship or aircraft page and to the photographer's profile.
The rule is the same as for the feed row: the first published photo of a given ship or aircraft by a given player. Uploading ten shots of the same ferry posts once. Photos that fail review never reach the channel.
The channel goes live as soon as its webhook is set up. Until then the posts are logged so we can check what would have gone out.
If you have a ship or an aircraft near you today, take a picture of it from the spotting card and upload it. It is the quickest way to get your name in front of everyone in the channel.