Smaller inline thumbnails for uploaded images

[jfrederickson]

Currently if someone posts an image, it can fill up almost the entire chat pane. Given that images can already be expanded by clicking on them (which provides a link to the full size version as well), I think the thumbnail shown inline should be significantly smaller, to avoid pushing the rest of the conversation off the top of the screen with one message.

[ara4n]

We've experimented a bunch with this over the last few months. I agree that usabilitywise it could be reduced, but aesthetically i also kinda like them being big. Hmmmm. @AmandineLP wdyt?

[jfrederickson]

Yeah, aesthetically it's kinda nice, but I personally think the interruption that can cause in a conversation could get annoying very quickly. For reference, here's the way Vector and Slack currently present the same image (and note that Slack allows you to fold it out of the way as well)

[AmandineLP]

Agreed it's sometimes hardly usable. Even on the screenshot below and especially on small screens. It's glossy when it's a nice pic, but shouldn't block usability :)
I would still keep it bigger than Slack though. The option to unfold it is good, but I would at least make it a setting ("display small/medium/large thumbnails"), basically like windows allows you to change the way your folder content is displayed: sometimes you need huge thumbnails, others, only details.

We could also start by decreasing the size a bit (by the same amount of free space on the right, only the bit with the grey line). The problem on small screen is that it takes the full height, but failing to think through an algorithm which would allow to take into account the height of the window as well as the width when resizing the thumbnail....

[jfrederickson]

Oh yeah, I didn't think about making it configurable - that would be nice. (Still leaves the question of what the default should be, but it'd be an improvement IMO.)

[trosel]

I think there should just be a consistent image preview size for desktop and phone apps alike. For example on Slack, you'll notice that all pictures regardless of size have the same cropping preview applied to them. If you absolutely must see the full version, you can click to download the full image.

Consistency is the key, in my opinion.

[nyoma-diamond]

Bumping this. looks like a bunch of other issues have been opened and then linked here but this issue seems kinda dead. For the sake of quality of life having this resolved would be really nice (and make the app feel a lot less clunky imo)