Source thumbnails sent to photon are too small #1811
Labels
🕹 aspect: interface
Concerns end-users' experience with the software
🛠 goal: fix
Bug fix
🟥 priority: critical
Must be addressed ASAP
🧱 stack: api
Related to the Django API
🧱 stack: frontend
Related to the Nuxt frontend
In #898 we introduced functionality which sends the URL of the upstream thumbnail to Photon if it's available and it's not from Phylopic. The motivation was so we can get the thumbnails faster and prevent timing out when images are too large.
However, many sources use unacceptably small thumbnails, with sizes in the 150-240px range, that look absolutely terrible and significantly degrade the user experience of Openverse. This is particularly evident for Flickr where many popular images are inherently older, and have very, very small thumbnails.
In the immediate we should reverse this change, and consider reimplementing after:
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