Parallel processing of thumbnails

[thecoffeebin]

Hello, @freeplant

I know the suggestions of thumbnail creation in background are put as low priority but it's getting more important or is a deciding factor among using seafile or other cloud hosting software. I really like Seafile v12.0.x so far hence I would love to have this thumbnail issue sorted out sooner rather than later.

The problem now is that the thumbnail is generated on-the-fly and the killing factor is that there's no option to have them to be processed in bulk or batched eg. generate 5 thumbnails at once.

Appreciate if thumbnail improvement can be put as higher priority amongst other improvements.

Thank you in advanced and for the hard work :)

[freeplant]

In version 13.0, there will be a separate docker component for thumbnail generating (thumbnail server) to increase performance. It will also better support thumbnails for videos.

But we don't have a plan to do the thumbnail creation in the background, because it will create unnecessary thumbnails.

[thecoffeebin]

Agreed with the approach on not having it running in the background (like what Immich does but it's a photo gallery app so it's different).

Glad that improvement is coming, thanks once again!!