Right now Discourse is generating a TON of images though - what’s going on here?

[image] bartv: Right now Discourse is generating a TON of images though - what’s going on here? How many versions where you behind?

I was on 2.5.0beta4, I think you guys added support for topic thumbnails since then - is that it? I don’t really need those as I’m using the Topic List Preview plugin for now, so is there a way to disable this for the time being? It already ate through 2 5GB of disk and is far from done…

[image] bartv: I’m using the Topic List Preview plugin for now, so is there a way to disable this for the time being? FYI Rob has changed TLP to use the thumbnails generated by core, so you’ll need those thumbnails moving forward See: Topic List Previews (legacy) - #1166 by merefield

Gotcha, thanks! Hopefully the now unused TLP old thumbnails will be cleaned up @merefield ?

Images should be deleted once orphaned: [image] How to make an image orphaned so that it gets removed? Support All the details are available in this job https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/jobs/scheduled/clean_up_uploads.rb TL;DR: an image is orphaned…

Discourse generating tons of images as topic thumbnails?

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merefield (Robert) July 5, 2020, 10:23pm 6

Images should be deleted once orphaned:

Topic		Replies	Views
Thumbnails of images in topics list Feature	5	3620	March 17, 2018
Display images with topics list Support	5	1509	May 18, 2019
Topic List Thumbnails Theme component official , topic-list-thumbnails	165	33549	February 26, 2026
Thumbnail generation & markdown rendering issue Support	14	1986	May 30, 2020
Reddit Style picture thumbnail on the left Feature	58	21357	December 4, 2025

Discourse generating tons of images as topic thumbnails?

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