BWsupport posted at 10:22AM Thu, 03 September 2015 - #4224557

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To your second point, we haven't deleted anything. However, all the legacy thumbs look extremely blurry that are under the current minimum requirements. Therefore, anything that is under the current minimum is not being used.
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That's a change to what you said in the second bullet point of this post, i.e. "A lot of legacy thumbnails are now blurry...to fix this issue we are simply displaying a scaled version of the main image ONLY IF the original thumb is below the current minimum size. (Some of this is still being converted)"

So you've abandoned that conversion then? And I have to recreate my missing thumbnails if I don't want the full-size version?
I also realized that my 28th/29th may cut-off date was when I started creating 200x200 thumbnails (the largest square thumbnails allowed) - up till then I'd been creating thumbnails at the maximum allowed size of 300x200.
It's not a big problem for me as there are only half a dozen thumbnails I need to redo.

But I have to agree with caty77 - simply scrapping thumbnails smaller than 300x200 shows a complete lack of concern for the users of the galleries.
Have you seen how many pictures people have uploaded?
It's hundreds, even thousands for many people.
Do you really believe that "go away and recreate thumbnails that fit our new dimensions for all your pictures and upload them all again" is a reasonable suggestion ?
Please at least finish scaling up all the old thumbnails that were too small and use them - you have another far greater bandwidth-related problem with your current method...

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