Story Images

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in pipedot on (#3MY)
Good news everyone! A new (user-visible) feature! Story images!

Okay, so trying to find an acceptable 64x64 pixel icon for each story got old pretty fast. There never seemed to be enough of them and they didn't always fit the article correctly. But with today's news sites wanting lots of eye candy, most articles already have at least one relevant image of the story. So we'll just make a small thumbnail of that!

You can change the quality of the thumbnail using the "Story Image Style" in your settings page. Or you can opt to keep the icons or disable the images altogether. If you have a high resolution screen (e.g. Apple's Retina displays) with a pixel ratio greater than the traditional 1:1, you can select one of the "High Resolution" options to get a sharper image.

Looks like progress! (Score: 2, Insightful)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-05-26 19:39 (#1X2)

I like it, but I liked the icons too. And yet, something about the icons seemed old school, so this is nice, especially if the code resizes the images. I know the trend now - Slashdot is definitely guilty of it in the redesign - is huge images that span the article. That kind of drives me crazy, maybe because I'm a more text oriented kind of person and I am turned off by sites that seem to emphasize images and bling over the text, which is the content I'm looking for.

This seems like the perfect compromise - nice work!

So how soon til this gets hacked to show inexplicably horrid images as a joke?
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