Very silly question I assume. There’s literally a thumbnail URL field in my thunder IOS app when I create a post. So far I’ve tried uploading an image in my main post which creates a web address and then placing that address of the image into the thumbnail URL. That does nothing though. Can’t find a manual online or anyone asking this question.
I might be the only person struggling with this, but please tell me how I can add thumbnails. Thanks.
I believe so! Lemmy will try to generate a thumbnail from the link field whenever possible. You can try this by creating a post with a link and see what shows up after you make that post.
If you don’t see a thumbnail after creating the post, then it’s likely that Lemmy wasn’t able to automatically fetch the thumbnail for it. If this happens, you can specify a custom thumbnail for Lemmy to use using the Thumbnail URL field (as long as this points to a proper image)
You can have images within the body of the text, but Lemmy won’t use those images for the thumbnail (if I recall correctly) - it’ll only look at the URL field to determine what thumbnail to use.