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Medium's approach of loading blurry pictures first gives me even more so the feeling that the site is slow.
by thesumofall 11y ago
Medium's approach of loading blurry pictures first gives me even more so the feeling that the site is slow.
- rokhayakebe 11y agoExactly. Whereas I may completely ignore the image, now I feel I have to wait and decide whether this piece of information (the image) is useful.
- knughit 11y agoOn medium, it never is useful. Disable it via your content blocker.
- stan_rogers 11y agoI don't mind the blurry pictures at all. What bugs me is that they're eventually replaced with detailed pictures that don't add anything that the blurred pictures weren't providing already.
- Animats 11y agoThat process could probably be automated. Run a big collection of clip art through an image classifier to get keywords, and just load some image with relevant keywords. Good Wordpress plugin to write, if someone hasn't done it already.
- waffle_ss 11y agoSo they load an entirely different image first? Why not just (re-)encode the image with interlacing[1] turned on? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlacing_(bitmaps) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlacing_(bitmaps)
- colejohnson66 11y agoIs Adam7[1] still useful with how fast internet speeds are today? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam7_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam7_algorithm