diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/Posted/PostedItem.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/Posted/PostedItem.cpp
index d107b660d..2ab455a21 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/Posted/PostedItem.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/Posted/PostedItem.cpp
@@ -247,19 +247,26 @@ void PostedItem::fill()
 	}
 
 	mInFill = true;
-	
+	int desired_height = ui->voteDownButton->height() + ui->voteUpButton->height() + ui->scoreLabel->height();
 	if(mPost.mImage.mData != NULL)
 	{
 		QPixmap pixmap;
 		pixmap.loadFromData(mPost.mImage.mData, mPost.mImage.mSize, "PNG");
 		// Wiping data - as its been passed to thumbnail.
 		
-		QPixmap sqpixmap = pixmap.scaled(800, 600, Qt::KeepAspectRatio, Qt::SmoothTransformation);
-		ui->pictureLabel->setPixmap(sqpixmap);			
-				
-		ui->thumbnailLabel->setPixmap(pixmap);
-	}else
+		QPixmap sqpixmap = pixmap.scaled(10*desired_height,1.5*desired_height, Qt::KeepAspectRatio, Qt::SmoothTransformation);
+		ui->thumbnailLabel->setMaximumSize(sqpixmap.size());
+		ui->thumbnailLabel->setPixmap(sqpixmap);
+		ui->pictureLabel->setPixmap(pixmap);
+std::cerr << "new size=" << desired_height << " " << sqpixmap.width() << " " << sqpixmap.height() << std::endl;
+	}
+	else
 	{
+		QPixmap sqpixmap = QPixmap(":/images/thumb-default.png").scaled(10*desired_height,1.5*desired_height, Qt::KeepAspectRatio, Qt::SmoothTransformation);
+
+		ui->thumbnailLabel->setMaximumSize(sqpixmap.size());
+		ui->thumbnailLabel->setPixmap(sqpixmap);
+
 		ui->expandButton->setDisabled(true);
 	}
 
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/Posted/PostedItem.ui b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/Posted/PostedItem.ui
index d991b99ef..e6faa0117 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/Posted/PostedItem.ui
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/Posted/PostedItem.ui
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
    <rect>
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
-    <width>617</width>
-    <height>190</height>
+    <width>825</width>
+    <height>337</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="windowTitle">
@@ -187,23 +187,11 @@
         <item>
          <widget class="QLabel" name="thumbnailLabel">
           <property name="sizePolicy">
-           <sizepolicy hsizetype="Fixed" vsizetype="Fixed">
+           <sizepolicy hsizetype="Preferred" vsizetype="Preferred">
             <horstretch>0</horstretch>
             <verstretch>0</verstretch>
            </sizepolicy>
           </property>
-          <property name="minimumSize">
-           <size>
-            <width>100</width>
-            <height>75</height>
-           </size>
-          </property>
-          <property name="maximumSize">
-           <size>
-            <width>100</width>
-            <height>75</height>
-           </size>
-          </property>
           <property name="styleSheet">
            <string notr="true"/>
           </property>
@@ -683,8 +671,8 @@
   </customwidget>
  </customwidgets>
  <resources>
-  <include location="../images.qrc"/>
   <include location="Posted_images.qrc"/>
+  <include location="../images.qrc"/>
  </resources>
  <connections/>
 </ui>
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxs/GxsCommentTreeWidget.cpp b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxs/GxsCommentTreeWidget.cpp
index a66b93b34..296ce68c8 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxs/GxsCommentTreeWidget.cpp
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/gxs/GxsCommentTreeWidget.cpp
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ void GxsCommentTreeWidget::service_loadThread(const uint32_t &token)
 			text = qtime.toString("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss") ;
 			item->setText(PCITEM_COLUMN_DATE, text) ;
 			item->setToolTip(PCITEM_COLUMN_DATE, text) ;
-			item->setData(PCITEM_COLUMN_DATE, ROLE_SORT, comment.mMeta.mPublishTs);
+			item->setData(PCITEM_COLUMN_DATE, ROLE_SORT, QVariant(qlonglong(comment.mMeta.mPublishTs)));
 
 		}