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.

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