On Apr 9, 2014 10:16 PM, "James Forrester" <jforrester(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On 9 April 2014 18:08, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Of course this thread isnt supposed to be about if its a good idea to
> increase the size, so far everyone is agreement on that front. The
issue
> is
> whether doing so would kill swift due to a large increase in object
count
> (or some other performance concern(?)) as has
appearantly been
suggested.
>
> Im not sure it would actually increase the object count that much, if
the
> new size chosen was a multiple of the old (as was
suggested on
wikipedia)
> since that size will already probably be rendered
for retina display.
Also
> we added the whole retina display srcset feature
without the world
> exploding, and i think that was orders of magnitude bigger change than
this
would be. Ill
admit im not actually familar with what the performance
issues are, and may have just said something totally irrelavent.
I can't see how enabling a size that's already enabled in production on
a
further wiki will significantly increase the object
count, but removing
all
sizes except one will definitely reduce it. :-)
J.
Actually it wont because things only ever get deleted when somebody uploads
a new version, deletes a file, or ?action=purge. Otherwise we keep thumbs
forever.
--bawolff