# Using onebox images for topic thumbnails

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-onebox-images-for-topic-thumbnails/165713>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [September 29, 2020, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-onebox-images-for-topic-thumbnails/165713 "2020-09-29T08:41:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![david](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/david/32/157490_2.png) [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2020, 9:30am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-onebox-images-for-topic-thumbnails/165713/2 "2020-09-29T09:30:40Z")

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It’s not based on the size of the image. In general, we do not take the images from oneboxes, because in a lot of cases they are not useful for thumbnails. For example, something we see a lot on Meta is GitHub repo links like

[https://github.com/davidtaylorhq/discourse-media-recorder-theme](https://github.com/davidtaylorhq/discourse-media-recorder-theme)

Nobody wants my face to be magnified and turned into the topic thumbnail 😉

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