# Is there any reason why small images don't have thumbnails?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reason-why-small-images-dont-have-thumbnails/61806
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [28 באפריל,‏ 2017,‏ 11:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reason-why-small-images-dont-have-thumbnails/61806 "2017-04-28T23:22:58Z")
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### Author: ![scombs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/scombs/32/48616_2.png) [@scombs](https://meta.discourse.org/u/scombs)
#### Post date: [29 באפריל,‏ 2017,‏ 7:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-any-reason-why-small-images-dont-have-thumbnails/61806/6 "2017-04-29T07:52:18Z")

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Well on mobile (\>50% of users) for Android Chrome the zoom is not enabled by default (and it’s under Accessiblility so I had never tried it until now).

Most users might instead just violently poke their mobile screen (like I have been) wondering why this image behaves differently than others.

Also wondering if the different behavior for small images will affect [other gallery or lightboxing features](https://meta.discourse.org/t/navigating-between-images-within-a-post/39158).

The problem of not being able to educate user to “enable force zoom” has [come up before](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-use-zoom-for-lightbox-images-on-phones/19646) along with the [why is this different](https://meta.discourse.org/t/some-images-get-lightboxed-some-not-in-the-same-post/50989/15) issue

I guess I dont understand the violent opposition. If someone doesn"t want or need to see the expanded image/caption/download link, just errr, don’t click on it. In addition the image doesn’t appear differently pre-click so it’s not really a cosmetic issue.

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