The thing that I don't understand is that it would take a relatively long time to load the categories page (~10 seconds) and then each subsequent page would take roughly just as long, but then after these have been loaded I can go back and forth between them very quickly. However, after a while it takes a long time again to load all of those pages again.

When page a finishes loading it appears that some of the album thumbnails are being created. But it seems to happen each time I need to wait for a long load - why would they be need to be regenerated every time? is it because each album contains hundreds of albums and because the thumbnails have not been yet generated for all the images, everytime I reload a page Piwigo assigns a new random thumbnail to that album and if that random thumbnail has not be generated it takes a while to create them - is that a possible explanation? Can I DISABLE the random assignment of album thumbnails by Piwigo and instead tell it to use whichever it was the first thumbnail it chose?

Last edited by Crythes (2024-03-05 17:08:38)

Hm, thanks, maybe it's not a big issue then as long as all the thumbnails get generated at some point. I am using a heavily modified Clear theme, but I haven't touched any of the it's underlying workings, just cosmetic changes. I am not using any thumbnail plugins or anything that should modify how albums are being displayed to my knowledge, so maybe it's the theme.