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The new cropped thumbnails are awful. Is there any way to revert? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ShadowRunner@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Previously, thread thumbnails were full images - but after the kbin update, every single one is cropped and we are only seeing half the image.

This looks awful and is functionally a degradation of quality.

Is there any way to revert this change?

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[–] ernest@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually, the previous thumbnails were cropped. You saw only a part of the image in its full dimensions. Now, it's the entire image scaled to a rectangle. It is possible to restore the previous view, and I will add the option for configuration.

[–] knoland@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Updated: this issue is now resolved.

I suspect theres a bug as some thumbnails are still being cropped.

Example: https://kbin.social/m/random/t/142699/watership-down

Edit: it also appears to crop images in the threads themselves (as seen with the screenshot posted on this reply)

[–] a-man-from-earth@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

appears correct here

[–] knoland@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looks to be fixed now.

[–] onyx@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@knoland
Hey can you give a link to that page, thanks

[–] knoland@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://kbin.social/m/random/t/142699/watership-down

The image being sent from the server appears to be cropped. Checking the code sending the thumbnail, it looks to be correct [ref].

(Disclaimer: It's been over 10 years since I looked at PHP code, so I could be wrong about what this code is doing)

[–] a-man-from-earth@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The new thumbnails are a great improvement. Thanks!