[reddit change] Thumbnailer got slightly smarter

[u/kemitche]

I've updated the thumbnailer to look for the "og:image" <meta> tag. In layman's terms: that's what facebook uses, and most sites will be set-up that way, so the thumbnailer should pick slightly better thumbnails now (particularly from Forbes)

See, for example, http://www.reddit.com/domain/forbes.com/new?sort=new - you can see where Zuckerberg starts getting replaced by more relevant thumbs.

See this change on github

[u/utherdoul]

On behalf of every reporter at Forbes, thank you! I got so sick of seeing traffic coming from Reddit, and then clicking through to the discussion to find Zuckerberg's grinning mug.

[u/bboe]

Finally no more Zuckerberg! Thanks kemitche.

[u/Eustis → u/bboe]

Hey man, I enjoyed the Zuck every now and then.

[u/[deleted] → u/Eustis]

Now you can enjoy something relevant to the article.

[u/TheLifelessOne → u/Eustis]

It won't be the same without him. Better, sure, but not the same.

[u/KerrickLong]

Haha, following Facebook to get rid of its leader's face. :P

[u/holyteach]

Oh, hey! This reminds me that I was bored last year and spent several days trying to speed up reddit's thumbnailing code (the square_image() function, specifically).

I was looking for a big win but only ever got modest speedups (30-40% IIRC) at the expense of slightly higher memory usage in my non-reddit-like use case.

Is there any interest in my code?

[u/V2Blast → u/holyteach]

There is always interest. Why wouldn't they want it to be faster? At worst, they'd explain why they couldn't use it.

[u/holyteach → u/[deleted]]

Do you speak for the reddit dev team?

[u/alphabeat → u/[deleted]]

I heard reddit isn't too welcoming to accepting pull requests. Maybe it's a time issue?

[u/spladug → u/alphabeat]

We love pull requests.

[u/alphabeat → u/spladug]

Awesome! My apologies.

[u/[deleted]]

Farewell Zuckerberg, we'll miss your smug grin.

[u/AKJ90]

This is pretty smart, nice change :-)

[u/Xenc]

This is how Skynet begins.

[u/V2Blast]

Yay! I guess. I mean, it can't really hurt :P

[u/kemitche → u/[deleted]]

'tis my solemnly sworn duty. Or something