This works in the TC, I used it this week. As for the plugin, I’ll take a look at this in the run up of the next supported upgrade period. Thanks for the report.
Thumbnails are created by Discourse now. Most of the related logic has been removed from TLP. We would need to ask them to support animated GIFs.
Yep, I’ve raised this. This is a template clash. One of my colleagues is looking at it.
It should work - I have seen sites using our official theme component successfully with animated gifs. Make sure that the allow animated thumbnails setting is enabled in your site settings. (it is enabled by default)
If it still doesn’t work, feel free to create a new #support topic here with the gif that doesn’t work.
Goooops, missed that setting, David, thanks so much for interjecting!
@jord8on if you get no joy with that I will take a look in first instance in that case. Hit me up with an example in a PM if that doesn’t work for you.
Animated GIF’s are working on our site. I’m not sure what the issue was. Maybe it was something on my local device ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks for looking into that!!
One more question. I just checked out the official discourse theme component and am wondering what the differences are between that Topic List Thumbnails Theme Component and this “Topic List Previews” plugin? Is one better or worse for certain situations?
I think it’s going to take you less than a minute to decide for yourself? :). TLP TC does what it says on the tin.
This is implemented in the TC, please test this out and revert:
@davidkingham @jord8on I’ve added the missing mobile plugin outlet to the TC that @fzngagan has kindly PR’d into Discourse core (cheers mate!), so you might find things are improved. I’ve not yet tested with the Events plugin though!
Let me know how you get on with Events plugin and the TC:
If you need this in the plugin, let me know.
This helps us so much, because we can now publish and promote content for our members first. Thank you! 
If we adjust thumbnail resolution or uninstall the TLP plugin, do we need to take any actions to purge the old generated thumbnails? Or will they purge automatically in time?
Resolution is just a superficial JavaScript level choice thing.
Good question. Thumbnail generation is a core activity. Try removing and rebaking a Topic and see if they disappear from latest.json
We currently see a discrepancy between the featured images order and the topic order by tag, i.e. the featured topics on https://1e9.community vs https://1e9.community/tag/titelstory?ascending=false&order=created
What exact dimension are the featured images ordered by? Thanks!
Created At. As in when the Topic was created (not when the tag was applied). And I’ve just double checked a site I have it on and it appears to be working as expected in both modes?
FYI everything seems to be working great, the conflict with events/mobile does still exist though.
I’ll take care of this in a few hours.
p.s. I made that change. Now the TLP template should load on mobile with the event details.
thanks @fzngagan
So now I see an event on the topic list on mobile fine using the TC. Can you please confirm @davidkingham?
That’s personal choice. TLP has been around longer and in part that is why it is more feature rich (Thumbnail chooser, Featured Images, User Portfolio system, support for Suggested Topics), it has a slightly different Tiles format with more meta data, TLTTC has an additional view type (grid).
Hi, thanks for the great plugin!
Unfortunately, with the last update, the images which do not hosted directly on discourse don’t show up on Grid or Tiles anymore. Could you please check that?
For example, it the post has image from other server (blogger, picasa, …) then they don’t show up anymore. Previously, it works great without any problem.
Thumbnails are now generated by Discourse core and I have little influence over that now.
Much of the thumbnail generation logic has been stripped out and left to Discourse.
You might want to raise that here: Theme modifiers: A brief introduction
Thanks! I just create a reply there. It’s a bit skeptical with all the updates since all my images is not hosted on local server.
I believe it should still work if your ‘uploads’ are hosted on a remote server via settings, but it will no longer hotlink to remote sites and non-affiliated third parties.
It no longer makes sense to manage this part of the code-base in the plugin given it’s now handled by core. It’s absolutely right you follow up with them 
