On 9 April 2014 12:49, Brandon Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:45 PM, James Forrester <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Proposal: > > > > - Make the default a nice proper size for the modern Web; I suggest > > 360px but could be argued up. > > - Remove all the other sizes from wgThumbLimits > > - Remove the user preferences for thumbnail size > > > > Simple. > > Well. Maybe not so simple. > > We also have to think about the thumbnails included in galleries. > Galleries with 360px thumbnails won't be very browsable. >
They're just as browsable as galleries with 220px thumbnails were for most of our users 5 years ago. It didn't stop us spewing galleries forth then. (Actually, with the new style layouts, much more so. There's a distinct discussion worth having about changing the default rendering of galleries to those for better UX.) > Also search results. > I presume you mean Special:NewImages, galleries in Category pags, and the like? Fair, though I think it's reasonable to shoot for consistency. > Also mobile. > Mobile has its own system for re-scaling images already, and I wouldn't propose changing that. > There's plenty of reasons not to remove other sizes. > Do the other uses actually use wgThumbLimits, though, or just an arbitrary size? J. -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
