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Thread Thumbnail by AddonsLab [Paid] 3.0.0 Beta 1

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welp, consider this another license sold! Getting mine now.

For anyone who wants to leverage their social media following, sharing pics with BIG previews is exactly one way to get readers to notice your content and on to your forums.
 
I uploaded a pic that is 840x480 and inserted it into a thread.

When sharing it on FB, the thumbnail does appear, but it is NOT using the large image in the preview, so it doesn't really look good on social.

How can I force it to use the big preview pics?

That is pretty much the only reason I bought this...
 
AddonsLab updated Thread Thumbnail by AddonsLab with a new update entry:

Bug-fix: thumbnail is used in thread metadata instead of full image

This release fixes a bug with the image in thread metadata being the thumbnail instead of the full version, which would cause lower quality preview image when the thread is shared on social media.

The new version is available for all licensed customers at - https://customers.addonslab.com/marketplace.php/my-services/

Thank you!
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drastic said:
I uploaded a pic that is 840x480 and inserted it into a thread.

When sharing it on FB, the thumbnail does appear, but it is NOT using the large image in the preview, so it doesn't really look good on social.

How can I force it to use the big preview pics?

That is pretty much the only reason I bought this...
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The issue is fixed now, you can download the package at https://customers.addonslab.com/marketplace.php/my-services/

Thank you!
 
Hey @AddonsLab - when we upload an image to be used as the thumbnail for social shares and thread list display, we don't always need to embed the attachment IN the thread.

Can we have a setting to NOT display the list of attachments at the bottom of the thread?

This way the uploaded image is used for your addon purposes, but not sitting at the bottom of each thread for no reason.

Sometimes we simply don't need to embed the image in the article, but it still serves a purpose on social media.

thx
 
AddonsLab updated Thread Thumbnail by AddonsLab with a new update entry:

New option - Hide thumbnail in attachments

In this release, we have created a new option called "Hide thumbnail in attachments".

With the option enabled the attachment which is used as a thumbnail will not be shown in the Attachments block under its post.

The new version is available for all licensed customers
at https://customers.addonslab.com/marketplace.php/my-services/

Thank you!
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AddonsLab updated Thread Thumbnail by AddonsLab with a new update entry:

Enable/disable option update: Include child forums automatically

From now on, the options "Enable/Disable Product" and "Enable/Disable Automatic Thumbnail" will not require listing all forums by hand in the option "Enable only in the following forums" or "Disable only in the following forums" - the children of the listed forums will be automatically considered enabled.

This is a breaking change so please verify your configuration after the upgrade.

The release also applies a minor change to the "Rebuild thread thumbnails" Admin panel tool and will now...
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Suggestion:
When the first "image" posted is an embedded video like YouTube/Vimeo, fetch the video thumbnail to use as Thread Thumbnail.

Question:
Will this work in a Suggestion-type forum?
 
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For everyone willing to resize thumbnails, while keeping the picture aspect ratio and showing a center-cropped picture (no matter if portrait or landscape)​


I've finally found the relevant CSS code.

Well... almost! 😅

The following code sets all thread thumbnails (where there's an attachment for it) to be shown on a round bordered rectangular of 80px by 60px, while leaving all other thread's pics with the same default avatar size. I've set my avatars to be round, so I see a mix of bigger rectangular pictures and small rounded avatar, and for the moment I'm fine like this.

I've also left blank the default thumbnail field in AL Thread Thumbnails options, because I want to show members avatar if there is no thumbnail to be shown.
But if you set a default thumbnail image, it won't get the set thumbnail's size as it will stay the same size of user avatars.

Here we are, put this in your extra.less:

Code: 
.threadThumbnailWrapper    div.avatar
{
    width: 80px; // CHANGE this value for a different width (also change max-height below to the same value)
    height: 60px;  // CHANGE this value for a different height (also change max-height below to the same value)
    border-radius: 5px!IMPORTANT;  // this is making rounded thumbnail corners: INCREASE or REDUCE if you want them more round or less round, comment or delete if you want square corners
}

.threadThumbnailWrapper    div.avatar img.alignThumbnail
{
    object-fit: cover;
    min-width: 100%;  // this will scale width to full thumbnail witdth for centered cropping - DO NOT TOUCH
    min-height: 100%;   // this will scale width to full thumbnail height for centered cropping - DO NOT TOUCH
    max-width: 80px;  // CHANGE this value for a different width
    max-height: 60px;  // CHANGE this value for a different height
}

// the following CSS will scale and center crop the smaller thumbnails that are showing on widget in default avatar size
.threadThumbnailWrapper  a.avatar img.alignThumbnail
{
    object-fit: cover;
    min-width: 100%; 
    min-height: 100%;
}

All other code combinations that I tested, didn't came up as expected. I turned to get stretched and deformed user avatars on "What's new" and all places other than "forum_view" and a few other issues that I don't even remember.

I can't go further than this as I'm not a coder, so if anyone else finds a fix for the missing code, please share.



@AddonsLab please 🥺 implement this as an option in next release, and please also add those options to choose if you want to show same size default thumbnail or not and possibly some more places where to show this or not (like exclude widgets) and so on.
Also, is it possible to turn the forum IDs fields into a forum names selectable list, so it would be easier to set up?

Thanks for your time
 
beerForo said:
Suggestion:
When the first "image" posted is an embedded video like YouTube/Vimeo, fetch the video thumbnail to use as Thread Thumbnail.

Question:
Will this work in a Suggestion-type forum?
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Youtube video thumbnail is already used. It does work in Suggestion type forum as well, you can see it here - https://xf2.addonslab.com/index.php?forums/suggestions.30/

@El Porcharo thank you for sharing your solution. I hope it helps some other users. Please let us know what exacrtly you would like to have as an option in the next version? Custom CSS rules applying custom sizes/corners are less likely to be useful for other users. Also, once you have these rules in your extra.less, they will not be lost with the upgrade and thumbnails will be shown.

If you have any specific page where it does not work as you expect, you may contact us at https://customers.addonslab.com/submitticket.php and provide all details we need to check out both working and not working pages, and we should be able to suggest some solution.

El Porcharo said:
Also, is it possible to turn the forum IDs fields into a forum names selectable list, so it would be easier to set up?
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I am afraid different users prefer different formats - when the number of forums is too large, it is not easy to see which ones are selected in a large list, and it is possible to de-select some of them accidentally, so ID-based list in even easier to use in these cases.

Thank you!
 
AddonsLab said:
Youtube video thumbnail is already used. It does work in Suggestion type forum as well, you can see it here - https://xf2.addonslab.com/index.php?forums/suggestions.30/
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WOW brilliant this is exactly what I need and I appreciate the time to set up that demo.

I just need to ask before purchase, can the images be larger and also square, if we use round for avatars? And can this be enabled in the post by default? I don't want them to disable it. Thanks!!!!!
 
beerForo said:
WOW brilliant this is exactly what I need and I appreciate the time to set up that demo.

I just need to ask before purchase, can the images be larger and also square, if we use round for avatars? And can this be enabled in the post by default? I don't want them to disable it. Thanks!!!!!
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I see the Automatic setting great! How about making it square if we use round avatars? And perhaps larger in the forum view only? Possible? I'm going to buy tomorrow most likely thanks!
 
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