Group multiple images into album grid + swipe through gallery like Twitter / Instagram

Hi everyone!

First off thank you so much for Jami, I really love it — especially that it’s private and decentralized. I wanted to suggest a small UI improvement that would make sharing photos a lot nicer!! If I send, say, 5 photos at once, they show up as 5 separate messages. It floods the chat and I have to scroll a lot.

I would love:

  1. Grouped album / folder-style grid
    When you select multiple images at once, group them into one bubble:
  • 2 images = side by side
  • 3 images = 1 on top, 2 below
  • 4+ images = 2x2 grid, and if more than 4 show “+3” on the last thumbnail like Telegram/WhatsApp does
    Tap it and it opens the gallery.
  1. Swipe through gallery
    And when you open any image, let us swipe left/right to next/previous photo like on Twitter. Right now I have to close one and open the next one.

Combined it would be: select 4 vacation photos → they appear as a 2x2 grid in chat → tap → swipe through them.

I share a lot of family photos and right now I have to make a collage myself before sending.

I tried to post this on git.jami.net but I get “New accounts are not permitted. Please contact a GitLab administrator” and when I try Sign in with GitLab.com I get 422 Email already taken. So posting here.

Thanks again for all your work on Jami! Happy to test if needed.

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This is a great proposal

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Thank you!! <3 I hope that this could be added in the future

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