Image Preview

[fattyhk]

Describe the solution you'd like

After uploading a large number of images and videos, the loading has become noticeably slower and more laggy. Could we implement a preview feature that only loads thumbnail images for browsing, and only loads the full images or videos when they are clicked?

Type of feature

User Interface (UI)

Additional context

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[RoccoSmit]

Thumbnail functionality was added to v0.13 and then it was then removed in v0.22 as part of the "refactor: update resource binary request handler" commit.
Feedback from Steven re deleting the functionality: "the reason for removing it before was probably refactoring and wanting to keep the code tidy and thus improve maintainability"

Link to removal PR for the final state of the resource/resource.go file containing the thumbnail generation logic.
resource/resource.go

I asked in Discord if Thumbnails could be re added and the response was positive.
https://discord.com/channels/1017113925776588902/1045138348165050409/1270757936293085194

[fattyhk]

Thanks~

[RoccoSmit]

@boojack, I did a poc for adding thumbnails back into the latest source code and the original code for thumbnails still works nicely.

I was interested in find out your thoughts on:

• Where should the thumbnails live for the 3 storage types? Currently the resource thumbnail get generated in a local resource cache folder for local storage and databases storage (i didnt test s3 but I believe it might do the same here as well). Would the end goal be for these thumbnails to live in local / db / s3 depending on the user's storage preference? or is having local cache good enough for now

• The generation of the thumbnail was originally done in the resource get/stream method rather than the resource creation method. I'm assuming this was done to ease backdating the generation of thumbnails for existing resources. is the intention to leave this behaviour and add the generation of thumbnails to the create method as well. Or should there be an initial, one-off, bulk thumbnail creation process for resources that do not have thumbnails and then only create new thumbnails in the create method?

[boojack]

@RoccoSmit

• Thumbnails should reside in the local file system as an optional cache.
• It’s recommended to maintain the previous approach: only attempt to access the thumbnail when requested, and if it doesn't exist, create it and then return it.

[RoccoSmit]

PR for reintroducing thumbnails is ready for review #3821