# Better to thumbnail client side or server side?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/better-to-thumbnail-client-side-or-server-side/286619>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 17, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/better-to-thumbnail-client-side-or-server-side/286619 "2009-04-17T19:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![tibberous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@tibberous](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tibberous)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/better-to-thumbnail-client-side-or-server-side/286619/1 "2009-04-17T19:09:05Z")

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I am making an app where people upload a bunch of images and it thumbnails them and saves them to the server. Is it better to create thumbnails from the uploaded images, or to upload them to the server then re-download the thumbnails?