diff --git a/app/models/site_setting.rb b/app/models/site_setting.rb
index 2dcf0ad07..e0376d76a 100644
--- a/app/models/site_setting.rb
+++ b/app/models/site_setting.rb
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class SiteSetting < ActiveRecord::Base
   setting(:queue_jobs, !Rails.env.test?)
   setting(:crawl_images, !Rails.env.test?)
   setting(:max_image_width, 690)
-  setting(:create_thumbnails, false)
+  setting(:create_thumbnails, true)
   client_setting(:category_featured_topics, 6)
   setting(:topics_per_page, 30)
   client_setting(:posts_per_page, 20)