Forum:Current images issues

Like many of you noticed and reported, it's been a few days that the galleries are completely broken, among other things. Here's what I noticed so far:


 * PNG transparency does not work anymore in galleries (it's all blue instead).
 * In galleries again, a random height size has been chosen, which makes the galleries look very messy. For my wiki I chose 140px as both height and width, and that looked pretty good. Now that doesn't work anymore and that's a shame. If heights has been disable, I really wonder why, since I really need it.
 * Furthermore, most jpg thumbnails have been refreshed with a very high JPG compression, while it was perfect before. I really wonder why. If that to make more space on the servers, I think a better comprise between quality and size should be chosen.
 * Old issues with the SVGs have also surfaced, with thumbnails having one pixel difference in height or width, resulting in blurry images in most browsers.

FYI, I'm not complaining, I'm just listing the issues I have noticed. I hope it can help the staff in fixing issues, whatever plans they currently have. And sorry for any possible redundancy from my part. Klow 17:00, July 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * You need to put this information in a comment for the gallery blog post, or use Special:Contact to let the staff know. They don't really read these forums. -- LordTBT Talk! 17:08, July 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * I've contacted Wikia staff via Special:Contact regarding degraded JPG thumbnails earlier (see corresponding thread). Looks like the problem is widespread after all. - ZS 18:22, July 18, 2010 (UTC)


 * Klow, can you link me an example of the SVG issue? On JPG compression, nothing was intentionally changed in the latest release. It's possible the setting was changed several months ago, but many thumbnails had had no reason to regenerate until now. 08:43, July 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * At least you're admitting the JPG settings were changed, but what should be the next course of action on the matter? - ZS 14:11, July 21, 2010 (UTC)


 * Kirkburn, I swear, many of our thumbnails on Combine OverWiki have been refreshed in lower quality very recently. It seems it's back to normal now (since about less than a week ago), but many thumbnails are still of low quality while they were not like a month ago. I kindly suggest they are refreshed again with the proper compression. As for the SVG, example here. I already notified Uberfuzzy who told me you were working on it. Klow 17:39, July 26, 2010 (UTC)
 * Here's an example of a thumbnail generated about a month ago (below, compressed) and one generated today with a new upload (above, proper). You clearly see a difference. Here's another example of a thumbnail generated on June 20 (below, compressed, you can't even see the eyes of the left character) and one generated today with a new upload (above, proper, like it was before). And another: below is the thumbnail as it was, above is the one made today after renaming the file. The old ugly thumbnail is dated Nov 2009 but I promise you it was identical back then as it is right now after being refreshed. Hope that helps. Klow 17:44, July 26, 2010 (UTC)