High-Resolution Images in Marketplace Listings
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RestrainedRaptor Resident
Marketplace images are limited to 700x525 pixels. This really needs to be increased so we can actually see what we're buying.
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Kilolo Jenkins
It would be great is we could get the standard 1024 x 1024 resolution for ad photos since that's what most are used to seeing.
It would also be helpful to have the click to enlarge feature added back to MP photo listings. As Observeur already stated, the current image size looks like about the size of two postage stamps and can't be enlarged to really see what it is a customer is buying.
So any type of enhancement to this is most helpful.
observeur Resident
Is there any update on this?
edit: June 22th 2026
without talking about animate images / videos, i want to point out that, on a modern high definition screen (such as a MacBook), a 700x525 pixels image, when displayed at 100% (1 pixel for 1 pixel) is the size of 2 stamps. And obviously, when enlarged, it looks like a blurry mess.
Problem is, the more we wait for this, the more listings creators will have to update when we will able to add higher resolution images. (i would hope that we will be able to add more than 1 picture at a time also).
To me this a top priority - quick and easy to implement - feature, that will let creators finally show their products as they actually look inworld.
And we don't need 4k resolution, we just need approximately the double of what it is now. It will already be an enormous progress (and as it was said already, new pictures formats are extremely efficient, so the storage and bandwidth cost would actually drop).
JadeThe Strange
YES. They also need to increase the file size allowed for uploads because it is damn near impossible to get some of my images below 1MB for upload without making them absolutely tiny (like, way smaller resolution than MP even wants). I can usually get them to just
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1MB with no issue (at the recommended resolution of 700x525), but getting them below that can be really difficult, especially when you have to sacrifice image quality on an already very small image to do so. I would also be really happy for us to be able to click on the images and see a higher resolution version so we can read the text easier and see the details of the item we're buying. It's very difficult to see things in such a small resolution, especially without being able to zoom in at all.
Even if they increased it to 2MB for uploads, and the resolution going up to 1024x1024 that would make a world of a difference.
Chanticleer Evergarden
I cannot read fine or small fonts on the product images and they don't zoom in anymore.
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Juniper Linden
Merged in a post:
Replace gif with webm, or allow youtube/vimeo/sketchfab/etc videos as previews
Coyote Enthusiast
Currently, creators can upload gifs to their marketplace listings (Limit 1 I think?).
GIFs are heavy, even if they are low quality and low frame rate. That's three cons: Low frame rate, low quality, and heavy bandwidth wise.
Many sites, including Tenor, Giphy, Reddit, and Discord, convert to gifs to webm when possible. However, they also allow uploading of webms now.
The benefit is the low size of webms while retaining relatively good quality and frame rate.
This will allow creators to better demonstrate their objects, especially animated objects, animations, or otherwise show case special features of a product with extended play time, quality, and resolution, while still maintaining a less than 1 megabyte upload limit.
The server can use ffmpeg to sanitize webm uploads (I.E. remove audio, constrain resolution, etc), as many other sites do.
The upload limit could be addressed separately.
Alternatively, allowing linking of youtube, vimeo, sketchfab, etc as a preview. This offloads the need to host the video, though this means the video can disappear at any time.
I feel that this is important, as gifs are a underutilized feature on the marketplace, which I feel is in part due to the low quality of them, and the fact it doesn't do the product it is advertising justice.
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Juniper Linden
Merged in a post:
Use AVIF or WebP Images
Extrude Ragu
Currently the MP is storing/serving product images as JPEG.
I propose switching Marketplace images such that all new uploads are converted to AVIF. In general this typically results in image file sizes being 3/10ths of JPEG equivalents, with no noticeable loss in quality.
MP Images are currently quite low resolution for modern UHD monitors. We could use the saved space to afford creators higher resolution images that are more suitable for the new modern MP.
Lucky Clover
As long as we can still Upload the gifs and they're just converted server-side, as people are used to making gifs more and most don't even know how webms are made, yes!
Webm is a great format and it's supported by all browsers these days as far as I know, and would give us the bonus of, as far as users are concerned, just gifs that don't autoplay and can be paused. WebP is a direct gif replacement, but WebM would allow the option of audio as well.
You already can't set a gif as the main thumbnail, iirc gifs are even something you have to click on manually? so that wouldn't be a concern.
This would allow for better quality over gifs, smaller filesizes, and I'd assume any audio from a user-made webm file would be muted by default, but would then allow for people to essentially put entire (very quick) guides on the listings, if the filesize is small enough. I made a guide for a product that's less than 2 minutes long, could probably be pretty small in that format, but had to make a youtube account just for one video that way. I'd absolutely love the ability to just have it in the listings themselves if short and small enough!
Zia Underwood
please no webm
Peter Stindberg
Feels as if that has been suggested before, but makes total sense.
Just... please no animation on the main pic of an item. Imagine a page full of 96 moving thumbnails.
Chanticleer Evergarden
Yes, and the ability to zoom closer. I can barely see written details on the photos on the marketplace and it is very frustrating.
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