Feature request: Crop thumbnails instead of resizing them

[ManOrMonster]

Thumbnails that aren't square are resized to be square, which distorts the image. I suggest one of three options:

1. Crop the image instead of resizing
2. FIt the image into a square and add black borders
3. Fit the image into a square and use transparent borders (which would require PNG instead of JPG)

Considering that the thumbnails have a max size of 200px, option 3 seems best. The file sizes would continue to be quite small (70kb vs 9kb).

[javsezlol1]

ideally you would just render a square image for the sake of the thumbnail no ?. i think havving black bars or transparent borders will start to look messy

[ManOrMonster]

Yes, I started doing that once I noticed it resized them. Maybe a caption that explains that square images should be used.

[javsezlol1]

yea that sound like a good idea