Is that photo weird or is that hallway something like 2.5 feet wide? I was expecting a photo of, like, a 6 foot wide hallway and it just looked a bit cluttered but still completely easy to move through.

I can understand all the people currently living on the floor coming a tacit agreement or accepting the situation but ... mmaaayyybbeee ... the cyclist could be planning for a better way to store their bikes. One of the text back-and-forths mentions that another cyclist doesn't use their bike as they cannot move their bike freely down the hallway without banging into the hallway-parked-bikes.

And yeah, what happens as people move in/out and their situation doesn't allow them to be as accepting of the current situation the previous neighbors went along with? If the person using the very narrow hallways as a parking spot isn't able to work around their current neighbor(s) asking them to rethink how they are using the communal space, I highly doubt they'd be any more flexible with a neighbor who is brand new and a complete stranger.

Also this text from the person parking in the hallway...

the only place of open wall in my apartment i in the narrow hallway I can't put a rack on my wall there without literally blocking the hallway in my apartment.

... is a bit priceless.

Also also...

...I'm frankly frustrated that someone's who's been living here shorter than anyone else is asking me to do something...

Which I hadn't read until after I commented about "what they gonna do when somebody new moves in and asks for the situation to be renegotiated"...