I don't know where to go to talk about this, but after migration, the Category Exhibition layout has been disabled for my wiki. Is this permanent?
I don't know where to go to talk about this, but after migration, the Category Exhibition layout has been disabled for my wiki. Is this permanent?
Maybe it isn't, it's on the edge. Might be worth asking. And if you do, it'll be appreciated if you share here whatever answer you get.
And just to make sure you know, personal CSS isn't under the customization policy.
Ah yes. If you want to do it just for yourself, you can do anything you want. I took a look at Dynamic Categories on a UCP wiki and I think it wouldn't be that hard to write some custom JS/CSS combo that not only changes the size of the images but also fixes the squishing.
So, it's not a violation?
If you are placing it in your personal CSS/JS, nothing is a violation. The customization policy applies to wiki CSS/JS.
Oh. I'm awaiting a response from the Fandom Staff to see if it would be a violation of the policy or not.
The dynamic categories layout loads the images on thumbnais with their full size. Normally a thumbnail 90 pixels large should load an image that is more or less of this size. Well, on UCP they send the full image, even if it's 1920 pixels and the thumbnail is less than 40 pixels. Well done, UCP! Servers and users' bandwidth consumption go brrrrrrrr!
Better thing is to do, until Fandom fix this non-sense, is to use display none on these elements and tell your users, localy, in the wiki you admin, to use the Classic categories. There, in the Classic categories, with some CSS it's possible to display the file names and sizes.
And if someone tells you that it might be a violation on the customization policies, don't discuss with them, they are most probably right. But I doubt Fandom staff could offer you a better solution themselves in the next months, unless they fix the size of the images being loaded in the "Dynamic Category" layout.
And I'm not fixing my grammar mistakes above because this shit Discussions platform doesn't even inform others the date and time the message edition was made. Sorry.
Huh? The thumbnail size is the same on UCP as legacy. The difference is that legacy crops rather than squishes the image.
You're talking about the DISPLAY size. I'm talking about the LOADED image size. Test it: go on a legacy category (example), right click on any thumbnail of an image you know that is very large (those JPG screenshots or even photos; not icons, emojis or small gifs!), then click "Open image in new tab". On legacy you'll have an image of the size of the thumbnail, with the size parameters in the URL:
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/central/images/9/93/20160203_010158.jpg/revision/latest/window-crop/width/40/x-offset/215/y-offset/0/window-width/2134/window-height/1600?cb=20160203060354
Save that loaded image in your PC and see the file size.
Do the same process on UCP category and tell me what you got.
To better understand the difference: Fandom can load a 4MB photo (3000 x 5000 pixels) on a page, and display it inside a 40 pixels box, with the help of inline style or CSS. That's what UCP does. Legacy GENERATES a thumbnail with the width paramter declared on the URL, and than loads THAT already reduced image on the page load. This is what legacy does. And this is the right way of doing things.
What do you think?