# Image compression and resizing

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-compression-and-resizing/32614>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [August 27, 2015, 9:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-compression-and-resizing/32614 "2015-08-27T21:06:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/image-compression-and-resizing/32614/3 "2015-08-27T21:42:12Z")

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Are you sure this matters? We automatically thumbnail any image that is wider than post width anyway so users are never seeing the original “giant” image unless they click through on the thumbnail…

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