Sideways Photos

What's with the sideways posting of photos and how do you fix it?

I thought it might have been something to do with large file sizes, but having compressed a photo to less than 900k it's still uploading sideways

(I'm using Chrome browser on Android, if that makes any difference)

 

Are you sure you aren't taking the photos sideways? The system won't know which way up you want them to be.

 

They appear correct (landscape) on my phone, but get uploaded sideways (portrait). It's like it's ignoring the exif orientation attribute

 

Test it's never happened to but thay always post super large or maybe not lol

 

We had this the other day . Max size is 1600 X 1600 pixels . I resized my picture and it sorted it out.
Having said that a couple of strange replied that I couldn't understand suggested that it didn't work for others

https://thelatebay.com/index.php?threads/mods-mods-my-pictures-come-out-sideways.88082/#post-1695974

 

Mine keep doing it too.....despite the size?

 

Ah - the one I was trying to upload is 2064x1548. Maybe that's it

 

Ah. I've now resized to 1280 x 960 and the file size is 1.09MB

When uploaded it appears sideways when you're at the thumbnail / full image step of composing a reply, but then goes the right way up when you actually add it to your post

Edit: the attached image looks sideways (to me at least) but then is the right way up when viewed

 

Suppose that's a win? Or at least half a win

 

Sideways.

 

I have had one upload completely upside down and then I edited it to make it 5% smaller and reuploaded it still at too large size, and it came out the right way up.

The stupid server is resizing the pictures anyway, just making a complete Boris or Jezza of it.

I started with a 4032 x 1908 , server resized it to 1600 x 757 for me for free.

It just gets the rotation wrong.

 

IT DID NOT USE TO MESS UP. IT IS SINCE THE NEW HOSTING, SOMETHING IS BROKEN THAT WAS NOT BEFORE.

I AM SHOUTING BECAUSE UNLESS I START SWEARING NOBODY WILL LISTEN... IT IS SNAFU'd

 

They're fine from my crappy phone.

 

The thing is, the server does resize pictures anyway, just does a worse job than it used to on the old host.

Therefore something unexpected has changed. Either a feature or a bug.

 

It seems like when the server is resizing / processing the uploaded image it's not copying the relevant EXIF tags to the output image properly - which amongst other things contains a flag that indicates which way the image is oriented

(I'm a software developer and had to fix a similar issue a few months ago btw)

 

^this. None of mine go wonky.