From 6f16a2715e0f20b6e42539731ba9f7874361042c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brent Simmons <brent@ranchero.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 21:47:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Skip=20downloading=20featured=20images,=20since?=
 =?UTF-8?q?=20we=E2=80=99re=20not=20displaying=20them=20anywhere.?=
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 .../Timeline/TimelineViewController.swift        | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Mac/MainWindow/Timeline/TimelineViewController.swift b/Mac/MainWindow/Timeline/TimelineViewController.swift
index 60f76fa0f..1eed90561 100644
--- a/Mac/MainWindow/Timeline/TimelineViewController.swift
+++ b/Mac/MainWindow/Timeline/TimelineViewController.swift
@@ -778,13 +778,17 @@ extension TimelineViewController: NSTableViewDelegate {
 	}
 
 	private func featuredImageFor(_ article: Article) -> NSImage? {
-
-		if let url = article.imageURL {
-			if let imageData = appDelegate.imageDownloader.image(for: url) {
-				return NSImage(data: imageData)
-			}
-		}
+		// At this writing (17 June 2019) we’re not displaying featured images anywhere,
+		// so let’s skip downloading them even if we find them.
+		//
+		// We’ll revisit this later.
 		
+//		if let url = article.imageURL {
+//			if let imageData = appDelegate.imageDownloader.image(for: url) {
+//				return NSImage(data: imageData)
+//			}
+//		}
+
 		return nil
 		
 	}