On 19 September 2012 09:20, aude aude.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
If anything, I think in the download button / dialog in Commons, we should have an option to allow user to choose image of any size to download, in addition to the preset choices. :) The thumbnails can be temporary I suppose, and hope no one uses them to hotlink. (my humble opinion!)
Arbitrary-sized thumbnails are a much-used feature, and I don't think this feature should be removed.
The Commons reuse guide [1] notes that hotlinking thumbnails is allowed, but it's a terrible idea and you should either store the image locally or use InstantCommons (which works wonderfully).
As I noted, this thread was started with Ariel warning space was getting low on the image server. Removing much-used functionality when you could just remove unused images still strikes me as a weird response.
- d.