# Reddit Style picture thumbnail on the left

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reddit-style-picture-thumbnail-on-the-left/13089
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [February 26, 2014, 10:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reddit-style-picture-thumbnail-on-the-left/13089 "2014-02-26T10:11:21Z")
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### Author: ![rewphus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rewphus/32/115836_2.png) [@rewphus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rewphus)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2015, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reddit-style-picture-thumbnail-on-the-left/13089/41 "2015-06-28T12:47:18Z")

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> [@Santiago\_Sarceda](#):
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> Only to “detect” the first image used in a thread and have that URL available on the topics view would be enough; do you think that would be doable?

Isn’t that what `topic.image_url` is already doing? I believe it may only be the first image in the first post, but that should still serve most of your purposes. You would just have to modify the template to put the thumbnail somewhere, but as [Sam has shown](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sams-personal-minimal-topic-list-design/23552), that is very easy to do in the customize menu now.

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