not a bug, thumbnails are just shrunk but not actually smaller

i think ETI’s image servers were set up to actively transcode images to a smaller file to generate thumbnails

as you’ve demonstrated here, the same image is just being dynamically resized, while it appears smaller it still has the same filesize / memory footprint, you can even right click -> open image in new tab on the ‘thumbnail’ and be given the full size img

this tech seems to actually be in place and working for avatars tho

“1mb limit”
“150x150 pixels maximum”
:thinking:

pictures are 10mb max and the thumbnails are max 1024x1024
i might make one level smaller for them idk

oh the easy thing (probably not easy) would be just implement “turn embedded imgs into links” as a toggle for mobile

i used to always use thumbnail on desktop as a compromise for when i’d be on mobile later