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ha - that blog post is 26MB large and makes my laptop cry

by lsh 8y ago

vezycash 8y ago
How about the size of the new gmail?
- lsh 8y ago
  I use the business gmail version for work and it hasn't changed. Might be an opt-in thing?
  - philliphaydon 8y ago
    I can't figure out how to enable it for home or work email :(
  - auscompgeek 8y ago
    At the bottom of the G Suite blog post: > The all-new Gmail experience is available for businesses to start using today in the G Suite Early Adopter Program (EAP) and can be turned on in the Admin console. [...] > Personal Gmail users can opt-in to the new experience, too (Go to Settings in the top right and select “Try the new Gmail.”).
    - y_molodtsov 8y ago
      Does anyone have an idea on how one can enroll in EAP? I couldn't find any setting or a link, but would really like to try it for our G-Suite.
      - JDevlieghere 8y ago
        https://support.google.com/a/answer/82691 https://support.google.com/a/answer/82691
      - jfconno 8y ago
        Took me ages to find this... In Google Admin Apps > G Suite > Settings for Gmail > Advanced settings ...and then scroll down to : New Gmail Early Adopter Program
dazc 8y ago
Looks way better without javascript.
- enriquto 8y ago
  > Looks way better without javascript. This sentence is nearly always true, applied to websites. (The exception would be mathjax, and a few more things)
fuzzy2 8y ago
Yes, it’s incredible how just the preview images of “related articles” are over 13 MiB in size. That’s pretty dumb. As is using GIFs instead of actual videos. It’s 2018, damnit.
- Cthulhu_ 8y ago
  Google shot themselves in the foot there though - autoplay videos are / can be disabled, but with gifs that's a bit more difficult and / or gifs are a way to force people to get exposed to videos.
  - tambre 8y ago
    Maybe they could change Chrome to allow autoplay videos, which have no audio? Would make them very much functionally equivalent to GIFs.
  - dredmorbius 8y ago
    I've taken to blocking gifs due to abuse. Mostly just transparent-until-hover, but still. https://pastebin.com/m5CEVfhL https://pastebin.com/m5CEVfhL
josteink 8y ago
> ha - that blog post is 26MB large and makes my laptop cry Sadly that also reflects the state of the new Gmail. It's bigger and slower to load than ever before. At least based on testing I've done on a test-account given to me by Google. (Which may or may not contain debug-builds, extra logging, instrumentation, etc. I'll not entirely exclude the possibility that the final release builds may leaner.) Anyhow, needless to say, I'm happy with Fastmail :D
wila 8y ago
it crashed my browser AND my firewall, never seen that before.
skywhopper 8y ago
Well, and the page itself is just hideously unusable. 1/3 of the space is covered with noise begging me to leave the article I'm trying to read. The top 1/3 is 80% blank space that keeps popping up and going away as I scroll, making the simple act of scrolling through an article feel unpredictable, as I'm never sure if I'm even going to be able to see the entire animation they want me to look at. Overall the experience of reading this blog is claustrophobic and stress-inducing. I almost thought I was on Medium for a bit.
- erichurkman 8y ago
  They somehow made the blog post more painful to read than a CNN article. That's talent right there.
callahad 8y ago
The Related Articles carousel at the bottom is responsible for a lot of that. In at least one of the tiles, it's backing an 82x45 thumbnail with a 2800x1556 PNG. The PNG is 6 MB, which works out to over 1.5 KB per pixel. Annotated screenshot at https://twitter.com/callahad/status/989119555711782917 https://twitter.com/callahad/status/989119555711782917 What's worse, it's clear the CMS knows that the image is going to be displayed as a small thumbnail: the markup uses the picture tag and srcset attribute to provide alternative images, indicating that they'll be around 120 or 240 pixels wide, depending on device DPI. ...and yet, the actual file it serves is the same, full-resolution PNG in all cases. This is a problem that the CMS should be solving.
travoltaj 8y ago
I had the blog post open on my mobile for the past day and this really explains why my phone was acting up.. It's gotten noticeabley faster right after closing it.

ha - that blog post is 26MB large and makes my laptop cry

by lsh 8y ago

ha - that blog post is 26MB large and makes my laptop cry

vezycash 8y ago

How about the size of the new gmail?

lsh 8y ago
I use the business gmail version for work and it hasn't changed. Might be an opt-in thing?
- philliphaydon 8y ago
  I can't figure out how to enable it for home or work email :(
- auscompgeek 8y ago
  At the bottom of the G Suite blog post: > The all-new Gmail experience is available for businesses to start using today in the G Suite Early Adopter Program (EAP) and can be turned on in the Admin console. [...] > Personal Gmail users can opt-in to the new experience, too (Go to Settings in the top right and select “Try the new Gmail.”).
  - y_molodtsov 8y ago
    Does anyone have an idea on how one can enroll in EAP? I couldn't find any setting or a link, but would really like to try it for our G-Suite.
    - JDevlieghere 8y ago
      https://support.google.com/a/answer/82691 https://support.google.com/a/answer/82691
    - jfconno 8y ago
      Took me ages to find this... In Google Admin Apps > G Suite > Settings for Gmail > Advanced settings ...and then scroll down to : New Gmail Early Adopter Program

dazc 8y ago

Looks way better without javascript.

enriquto 8y ago
> Looks way better without javascript. This sentence is nearly always true, applied to websites. (The exception would be mathjax, and a few more things)

fuzzy2 8y ago

Yes, it’s incredible how just the preview images of “related articles” are over 13 MiB in size. That’s pretty dumb. As is using GIFs instead of actual videos. It’s 2018, damnit.

Cthulhu_ 8y ago
Google shot themselves in the foot there though - autoplay videos are / can be disabled, but with gifs that's a bit more difficult and / or gifs are a way to force people to get exposed to videos.
- tambre 8y ago
  Maybe they could change Chrome to allow autoplay videos, which have no audio? Would make them very much functionally equivalent to GIFs.
- dredmorbius 8y ago
  I've taken to blocking gifs due to abuse. Mostly just transparent-until-hover, but still. https://pastebin.com/m5CEVfhL https://pastebin.com/m5CEVfhL

josteink 8y ago

> ha - that blog post is 26MB large and makes my laptop cry Sadly that also reflects the state of the new Gmail. It's bigger and slower to load than ever before. At least based on testing I've done on a test-account given to me by Google. (Which may or may not contain debug-builds, extra logging, instrumentation, etc. I'll not entirely exclude the possibility that the final release builds may leaner.) Anyhow, needless to say, I'm happy with Fastmail :D

wila 8y ago

it crashed my browser AND my firewall, never seen that before.

skywhopper 8y ago

Well, and the page itself is just hideously unusable. 1/3 of the space is covered with noise begging me to leave the article I'm trying to read. The top 1/3 is 80% blank space that keeps popping up and going away as I scroll, making the simple act of scrolling through an article feel unpredictable, as I'm never sure if I'm even going to be able to see the entire animation they want me to look at. Overall the experience of reading this blog is claustrophobic and stress-inducing. I almost thought I was on Medium for a bit.

erichurkman 8y ago
They somehow made the blog post more painful to read than a CNN article. That's talent right there.

callahad 8y ago

The Related Articles carousel at the bottom is responsible for a lot of that. In at least one of the tiles, it's backing an 82x45 thumbnail with a 2800x1556 PNG. The PNG is 6 MB, which works out to over 1.5 KB per pixel. Annotated screenshot at https://twitter.com/callahad/status/989119555711782917 https://twitter.com/callahad/status/989119555711782917 What's worse, it's clear the CMS knows that the image is going to be displayed as a small thumbnail: the markup uses the picture tag and srcset attribute to provide alternative images, indicating that they'll be around 120 or 240 pixels wide, depending on device DPI. ...and yet, the actual file it serves is the same, full-resolution PNG in all cases. This is a problem that the CMS should be solving.

travoltaj 8y ago

I had the blog post open on my mobile for the past day and this really explains why my phone was acting up.. It's gotten noticeabley faster right after closing it.