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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

You get the exact same quality at around ~25% smaller than other image formats. Unfortunate that it’s not supported by everything, but yeah it’s a better image format practically in that sense.

On the web this saves money when storing at a large scale, and it can have a significant impact on page speed when loading websites on slower connections.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My problem is the way it's packaged as a link to a website that hosts the jpeg image. Saving, modifying, and using the image file becomes impossible in some workflows. Imagine a future where you get fined for stealing memes. I bet they could make the image file size even smaller without all of that bullshit added in, until then I'm just using an extension to convert to png (which results in loss btw).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

It's already supported in many more places than it was a couple years ago. It just takes time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I'd rather see the savings in the army of Javascript I apparently need today for the 'modern' web experience. Image files have gotten lots of love, but hey, here's a shitty 27 year old language designed for validating form input!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Save a lot more debloating your code. Storage is cheap. Processing power is not.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are still places where bandwidth is a bottleneck, even on internal network is essential to optimize for bandwidth

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

There are more places where bandwidth is a bottleneck now than 10 years ago.

NIC speeds have gone from 100Gbps to 800Gbps in the last few years while PCIe and DRAM speeds have nowhere increased that much. No way are you going to push all that data through to the CPU on time. Bandwidth is the bottleneck these days and will continue to be a huge issue for the foreseeable future.