Use smaller images to improve thumbnail quality

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I mentioned this a while ago, but I don’t think I ever wrote up a request for this. You should create lower dimension source images when the rendered images are significantly smaller that the original size. Oddly, when you use too-high dimension images, it actually makes the quality worse.

Here is the original source (about 350x350 when square) shown on my list:
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Here’s how it looks when the image is replaced with one that is only 88x88 (25%):
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Notice how there’s a lot less weird artifacts when using the smaller dimensions. Naturally if you zoom in, the full size version looks better, but that’s not a major use case.

Original image for reference

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For what it’s worth, this is what Discourse does with profile pictures. They have copies at various sizes since they display them at various sizes.

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Yeah, this would be better agreed. It’s just an infrastructure project i may never get around to, ugh. It’s not that hard, probably a medium.

The switch to Next.js actually makes this easier as it has built-in utilities for this :confused:

Regardless, this is approved.

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