Posting multiple photos make the Reader ignore my text

[dzver]

Quick summary

Posting a blog post with text and multiple photos makes the reader treat is as a gallery. The text is ignored and it gets no clicks.

Steps to reproduce

1. Using a desktop browser
2. Post a post with more than one photo and text
3. Go to the reader
4. It displays a gallery with no text

What you expected to happen

1. Post a post with more than one photo and text
2. Go to the reader
3. See the text and one photo

What actually happened

3. I saw a gallery of my photos, all text stripped

Impact

Some (< 50%)

Available workarounds?

No but the platform is still usable

If the above answer is "Yes...", outline the workaround.

No response

Platform (Simple and/or Atomic)

Simple

Logs or notes

Chrome browser, 13"

[retnonindya]

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I honestly thought this was expected, as mentioned here: https://wp.me/p5PDj3-1ym

That said, I agree that no text is displayed, only images. This might not be a good experience for users.

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[lsl]

The Gallery card is used when the post contains text and 4 or more images (excluding the featured image – the featured image is ignored for the Gallery card to avoid duplications if the author used the image in the post as well). The card gets a row of four images above the headline. These images should be the first four usable (over 350px) images in the post. Each image gets 25% of the width. 1px of whitespace in between each image.

Looks like expected behavior, we also do show text along with the images but you need a certain word count or maybe placement for it to show up.

[inaikem]

Pulling out a thread from DM:

This is expected behaviour for the Reader preview but not a great experience.

Considering the original presentation was outlined nearly 8 years ago, I believe there's a case to improve that. Reopening as an Enhancement and pinging @davemart-in in case this is a potentially quick fix, or there's capacity in the team to prioritise it 🙏

[davemart-in]

This is expected behaviour for the Reader preview but not a great experience.

We can add this to our queue if it's clear what the expectation is. I'm hearing a couple of different perspectives.

If we can get consensus on what would be a great experience, I'm happy to add it to our board.

[dzver]

As a minimum, the text must be visible.

[davemart-in]

Thanks. I think we can do that. Okay, so here's my summary:

Expected

If I publish a post with multiple images and text, some portion of the text should be shown.

Actual

If I publish a post with multiple (4+) images and text, only the images are shown.

[dzver]

I encountered 4 such posts in a series of 5 posts today. It seems to be quite common.