Talked to the openphoto people. They have browserid support, which
looks easy and pleasant:
`https://browserid.org/ <https://browserid.org/>`_

Furthermore, the OpenPhoto people say it's easy. So why not support
it? :)

::

    <paroneayea> hub: we don't use browserid yet
    <paroneayea> but I'd like to
    <jmathai> paroneayea: said there's a json spec but it's not finalized yet
    <paroneayea> how hard is browserid to implement?
    <paroneayea> it looks beautifully pleasant to use
    <jmathai> trivial
    <paroneayea> really?
    <paroneayea> awesome

Not entirely on topic with `#658 </issues/658>`_ or
`#659 </issues/659>`_, but related.

My expectation was for the atom feed to contain the thumbnail of
the image (or equivalent of other media types). This is important
to me, as I want to widgetize/aggregate the feed on other sites.

I found two places where feeds are generated,
``mediagoblin/user_pages/views.py`` and
``mediagoblin/listings/views.py``:

::

        for entry in cursor:
            feed.add(entry.get('title'),
                entry.get('description_html'),
                content_type='html',
                author=request.matchdict['user'],
                updated=entry.get('created'),
                url=entry.url_for_self(request.urlgen))

I am not sure what the thumbnail is, but I am betting it is a
**summary** or maybe **content** (see the
`werkzeug atom docs <http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/contrib/atom/>`_).
I think this is important, even if we are moving to make it a full
ActivityStream, since the federation I have in mind is something
akin to a dashboard view of new photos posted on my friends'
sites.

So, can we get a thumbnail in there? =]

In this bug I will put comments as I review the new video code. I
will add new comments to this ticket as I go. I hope this is okay
and will be workable.