Previously, thread thumbnails were full images - but after the kbin update, every single one is cropped and we are only seeing half the image.
This looks awful and is functionally a degradation of quality.
Is there any way to revert this change?
Actually, the previous thumbnails were cropped. You saw only a part of the image in its full dimensions. Now, it’s the entire image scaled to a rectangle. It is possible to restore the previous view, and I will add the option for configuration.
Updated: this issue is now resolved.
I suspect theres a bug as some thumbnails are still being cropped.
Example: https://kbin.social/m/random/t/142699/watership-down
Edit: it also appears to crop images in the threads themselves (as seen with the screenshot posted on this reply)
https://kbin.social/m/random/t/142699/watership-down
The image being sent from the server appears to be cropped. Checking the code sending the thumbnail, it looks to be correct [ref].
(Disclaimer: It’s been over 10 years since I looked at PHP code, so I could be wrong about what this code is doing)
Ernest has it correct. Thumbnails now show the full image when before it was doing of cropping and scaling and resulting in things being distorted or just straight missing.
Edit. Scratch that, there’s some cropping happening that shouldn’t be. A lot of time was spent to make sure images retained their original aspect ratio but it looks like something has gone screwy with the thumbnail service.