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Ah sorry I misunderstood you. We keep the original image around and provide different sizes for different platforms/resolutions/dpis/etc.

mark-r 9y ago
There's no reason this couldn't be a two-step process, resizing to something reasonable on the client then fine-tuning it on the server. I'm presuming you don't see the need to start with multi-megapixel images.
- wastedhours 9y ago
  > I'm presuming you don't see the need to start with multi-megapixel images. Might be a fair presumption today, but might not be for the future with hiDPI screens, VR etc... for the relative storage costs, it'd be better to have the original, and then you can programmatically run from there.
  - mark-r 9y ago
    Today's hiDPI screens can already display more detail than your eye can perceive. The issue wasn't about storage costs, it was about transmission costs which still matter for the foreseeable future.
  - dboreham 9y ago
    Perhaps, but I think you can compress current-day phone images considerably without losing any actual image fidelity (because the sensor pitch significantly exceeds the lens resolution, and .. noise).
radicalbyte 9y ago
You should seriously consider doing this for your mobile client; the worst thing about Discord is that it eats mobile data if you're uploading lots of images.
- tzahola 9y ago
  That’s exactly the reason why the iOS Mail app asks you whether you want to attach an image in small/medium/large/original size.
- ehsankia 9y ago
  Data aside, my phone takes pictures at ridiculously high resolutions. Whenever I go to send pictures with discord, it takes a good 30 seconds and half the time it'll just break. As an aside, I wish the "share" button would share a lower resolution image instead. I don't mind storing the full quality picture, but handling a 10mb image is seriously silly.
- rockostrich 9y ago
  The other side of this is if you're on mobile data and they decide to resize the images on the client then people will complain about the app eating up battery life because it's using so much CPU to resize the images. Plus, they won't have the full size image to share with people you may be chatting with on desktop. If you want to not use so much data while uploading images then you should probably resize them yourself or just not upload images unless you're on wifi.

mark-r 9y ago

There's no reason this couldn't be a two-step process, resizing to something reasonable on the client then fine-tuning it on the server. I'm presuming you don't see the need to start with multi-megapixel images.

wastedhours 9y ago
> I'm presuming you don't see the need to start with multi-megapixel images. Might be a fair presumption today, but might not be for the future with hiDPI screens, VR etc... for the relative storage costs, it'd be better to have the original, and then you can programmatically run from there.
- mark-r 9y ago
  Today's hiDPI screens can already display more detail than your eye can perceive. The issue wasn't about storage costs, it was about transmission costs which still matter for the foreseeable future.
- dboreham 9y ago
  Perhaps, but I think you can compress current-day phone images considerably without losing any actual image fidelity (because the sensor pitch significantly exceeds the lens resolution, and .. noise).

radicalbyte 9y ago

You should seriously consider doing this for your mobile client; the worst thing about Discord is that it eats mobile data if you're uploading lots of images.

tzahola 9y ago
That’s exactly the reason why the iOS Mail app asks you whether you want to attach an image in small/medium/large/original size.
ehsankia 9y ago
Data aside, my phone takes pictures at ridiculously high resolutions. Whenever I go to send pictures with discord, it takes a good 30 seconds and half the time it'll just break. As an aside, I wish the "share" button would share a lower resolution image instead. I don't mind storing the full quality picture, but handling a 10mb image is seriously silly.
rockostrich 9y ago
The other side of this is if you're on mobile data and they decide to resize the images on the client then people will complain about the app eating up battery life because it's using so much CPU to resize the images. Plus, they won't have the full size image to share with people you may be chatting with on desktop. If you want to not use so much data while uploading images then you should probably resize them yourself or just not upload images unless you're on wifi.