# Expanding OP Meta Bar (Images & Videos)

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-op-meta-bar-images-videos/23740
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [January 7, 2015, 2:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-op-meta-bar-images-videos/23740 "2015-01-07T14:13:13Z")
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### Author: ![purldator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bcef8e/32.png) [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/expanding-op-meta-bar-images-videos/23740/4 "2015-01-07T16:52:14Z")

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Here’s a mock up. Please note it’s done mostly in photoshop and quickly, it’s going to look that way, heh.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/8/b82b5b10ea554b5c343629ea7951f09a04fe8e43.png) 

The thumbs were from the original images, shrunk to 50% their original size and cropped from the top left corner. One image didn’t need a full 50% resize, so it’s probably best to do a prior check to make sure the image handler doesn’t resize to a complete 50% if it doesn’t need to.

Of course, this is a proof of concept, not the final draft. Pretty much anything goes, but at least there’s a visual of the concept.

Also note the link refs count for the OP and any links inside it (which is the first link posted, pointing up at the OP instead).

And yes! Instead of them labeled as ‘images’ it could be ‘media’ instead, to account for any inline videos. Those too would be image thumbs, perhaps with the usual overlaid ‘play’ icon to indicate what they are.

Special case: Just remembered, it’s better to only catch an image when it _first appeared_. That way there’s no duplicates. [The signature thread](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automated-signatures/1127) is a perfect case example where it’s best to snag the image once, not _every time it appears in the thread_ or you’ll spam up the meta bar and create false positives.

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