On 19 September 2012 09:20, aude <[email protected]> wrote: > If anything, I think in the download button / dialog in Commons, we should > have an option to allow user to choose image of any size to download, in > addition to the preset choices. :) The thumbnails can be temporary I > suppose, and hope no one uses them to hotlink. (my humble opinion!)
Arbitrary-sized thumbnails are a much-used feature, and I don't think this feature should be removed. The Commons reuse guide [1] notes that hotlinking thumbnails is allowed, but it's a terrible idea and you should either store the image locally or use InstantCommons (which works wonderfully). As I noted, this thread was started with Ariel warning space was getting low on the image server. Removing much-used functionality when you could just remove unused images still strikes me as a weird response. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
