>> with a memory friendly in-place library like vips I think we will be >> oky. Since the user just waited like 10-15 minutes to upload their huge >> image waiting an additional 10-30s at that point for thumbnail and >> "instant gratification" of seeing your image on the upload page ... is >> not such a big deal. > > Well, what about the 5 million other users browsing Special:Newimages? > We don't want 50 simultaneous attempts to build that first > über-thumbnail. :)
Thumbnail generation could be cascaded, i.e. 120px thumbs could be generated from the 800px previews instead of the original images. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
