Since the post thumbnails got implemented a couple of weeks ago, the main page got a lot more, how do I put it, untidier. Before, it was very clean and unifying, with every post being roughly the same, and in theme with the rest of the design.
But after thumbnails it got a little messy. With images having different aspect ratios, sometimes not loading (just as a technical side issue). Images extracted from the articles are generally ugly and don’t have much to do with the actual context of the article (at least in my view).
I would actually prefer completely getting rid of any images (except for memes and any other picture-based formats), since this way all the focus is given to the actual contexts of a post and posts look nicer imo. Also, this reduces the page size a lot, which is nice. Dunno, maybe a compromise could be reached with specific criteria for aspect ratios…
Just wanted to ask if I’m the only person who’s bothered by that?
I just pushed some more changes to thumbnails today, so that now they are cached in pictshare / all from the same domain. So the size and privacy part of it now should be good.
I do like picture thumbnails for articles that have them.
At least now it’s easier to block them by blocking just one domain, however that would also block all native pics…
The size? You mean aspect ratio?
Maybe an option to disable them? I’m sure a lot of people would agree with me on that point.
The size/pixels. I’m not changing the aspect ratios for the images.
If I did add an option to disable images, it’d be all images, not just post thumbnails.
I think we definitely need to try cropping images to a common aspect ratio. Otherwise it will always look bad.