I only rarely host media on my instance itself. Catbox lets me control exactly what the file is, as the file is not subjected to any post-upload conversions.
But many instances will actually grab a copy of the image and cache thumbnails at various resolutions.
Thunder’s current version actually attempts to load the instance cached versions of images, though this has unintentionally left it unable to load and display the source file.
In the future, the plan is to make this configurable, to allow users to set an image size they’d like Thunder to request from the instance cache instead of loading full images every time, allowing for faster browsing and conserved bandwidth.
I only rarely host media on my instance itself. Catbox lets me control exactly what the file is, as the file is not subjected to any post-upload conversions.
But many instances will actually grab a copy of the image and cache thumbnails at various resolutions.
Thunder’s current version actually attempts to load the instance cached versions of images, though this has unintentionally left it unable to load and display the source file.
In the future, the plan is to make this configurable, to allow users to set an image size they’d like Thunder to request from the instance cache instead of loading full images every time, allowing for faster browsing and conserved bandwidth.