Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-9605025-20200720010451

I didn't read everything in detail but I really don't see any new criticisms being raised here. I am not sure why this thread keeps going in circles.

This change was made for SEO purposes (so you can thank Google, not Fandom). The assertion (which I agree with) is that most anons don't need access to the file pages so removing anon access to them will impact a relatively minor portion of the anon users. The two other main issues that have been raised concern seeing larger versions of the images and information such as licensing. As has been explained multiple times, if the anon is using a supported browser, anons should still be able to access both of these.

There was a recent comment regarding clipping in image galleries. To my knowledge, this will only happen when a non-UCP wiki is using the "new" image galleries feature. The cropping is a key aspect of the feature's stylistic choice. If a wiki does not like the cropping, the feature can be disabled via Special:WikiFeatures.