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Imgur video thumbnails

Open K4LCIFER opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

Is Your Feature Request Related to a Problem?

I've seen imgur videos without thumbnails

Feature Description

Provide thumbnails for Imgur videos

Alternative Solutions

No response

Additional Context

I'm not sure if this is an issue with all Imgur videos, or just failings for the one's that I have seen. Here is an example of one: Screenshot_20240604-155544

K4LCIFER avatar Jun 04 '24 22:06 K4LCIFER

Hey @K4LCIFER, thanks for the report! We generally rely on Lemmy to generate thumbnails for us as it can be very expensive for us to scrape websites and generate thumbnails from within Thunder. Can you see whether this post has a thumbnail on the web UI?

micahmo avatar Jun 04 '24 23:06 micahmo

We generally rely on Lemmy to generate thumbnails for us as it can be very expensive for us to scrape websites and generate thumbnails from within Thunder.

Noted!


Can you see whether this post has a thumbnail on the web UI?

It does not. image


I shall close this issue then! Out of scope.

K4LCIFER avatar Jun 04 '24 23:06 K4LCIFER

You can possibly try the "Scrape Missing Link Previews" setting, but there's no guarantee it'll help. That's our backup for when Lemmy doesn't have a thumbnail, but it's off by default due to the extra overhead as mentioned.

micahmo avatar Jun 04 '24 23:06 micahmo

By the way, don't feel like you have to close these kinds of issues if they're not resolved for you. 😊 I'm just trying to be upfront about how (or if) we would possibly tackle this from our end.

micahmo avatar Jun 04 '24 23:06 micahmo

By the way, don't feel like you have to close these kinds of issues if they're not resolved for you. 😊 I'm just trying to be upfront about how (or if) we would possibly tackle this from our end.

I appreciate it! Perhaps some tag like "on-hold" or "upstream" would be good if it is kept open?

K4LCIFER avatar Jun 04 '24 23:06 K4LCIFER

Good idea, we have several issues that rely on Lemmy server-side changes, so I think I'll make a corresponding label!

micahmo avatar Jun 04 '24 23:06 micahmo