Commons:Requests for comment/Technical needs survey/Priority thumbnail render queue

Priority thumbnail render queue[edit]

Problem description: Pages with many new thumbnails like on Special:ListFiles shortly after uploading, new created galleries or viewing files in the MediaViewer on lager screens leads to the problem that you run into the rate limit for thumbnail generation. This results in missing thumbnails or missing image in the MediaViewer.

Proposed solution: Currently the limits are the same for logged in users and not logged in users. There should be a second priority thumbnail rendering queue for autoconfirmed users. If this is not sufficient there could also be a third queue for admins and bots only.

it should be noted that the image rendering servers do not know whether or not you are logged in (different domain so it doesn't get the cookies, even if it did it wouldn't be able to validate them as the request is not processed by mediawiki), so i don't think its viable to do different limits for logged in/logged out. Bawolff (talk) 16:12, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There could be a solution for this like Mediawiki sending the IP to the render server where it is put on a list or other URLs for loggend in users. GPSLeo (talk) 09:28, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]