# 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:** ![exogravitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/779978/32.png) [@exogravitas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/exogravitas)\
**Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-onebox-images-for-topic-thumbnails/165713/6 "2020-10-08T17:45:20Z")

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I second this!!! For the use-case of a news aggregator or any other sort of repost-heavy page, not having relevant thumbnails is bad news.

If you guys don’t integrate this soon, are there any ideas on how to do this on my self-hosted distro?

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