Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-4970747-20200219121713

RealKnockout wrote: Hm. However, I believe it can negatively affect Image rankings. I think that google bot browses fandom as a anon, so if it tries to index a file page, it won't be able to, and wiki images won't be able to show up in the image section of google searches.

Yes. This is another big issue. Now the only images google can crawl are the tiny 200x200 or so thumbnails the new compression algorithm produces. That's why file pages are important, and why something should have been done to fix them rather than chuck them out entirely.