The images shown in thread summaries seem to be whatever happen to be the first four images in the thread. We have long threads that go 30 pages with artists showing their work. I would expect the thread summary to show the best / most popular images in the thread, but instead it just shows whatever was there first. Consequently, this feature seems meaningless and I am disabling it. It would be much better if the images were taken from whichever posts in the thread had the most positive reactions.

Edited October 10, 20204 yr by Interferon

As a mere question are the images links or uploaded to the thread? Last I checked it only shows uploaded images.

Without checking, I'm sure the majority are uploads. The thread goes for many pages, and all threads I have looked at behave this way.

 

If this were done better it would actually be a really great feature, because it adds a bit of gamification to posting. People would be competing to see their image in the top images.

I would like have it as:

1. Admin set show 4 most likes received. This is automatically option. 

2. Admin or moderators can select which 4 images will be showed. This is manually option. 

3. The images (4 images ) box should be a link to open the lightbox where we can see all images (add sort by most likes, by time, by size, by randomly) from the thread (uploaded and url).