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It makes sense given the volumes of photos and bandwidth they have to deal with, but if they cared about visual quality they'd let users tradeoff number of dail
by seemslegit 7y ago
It makes sense given the volumes of photos and bandwidth they have to deal with, but if they cared about visual quality they'd let users tradeoff number of daily uploads for higher quality/resolution but the know the vast majority views it on phones and couldn't care less.
- blululu 7y agoThere are probably UI patterns that could help balance the technical challenges bandwidth with the utility of high resolution images. Wikipedia for instance defaults to low resolution images but in 1-2 clicks you can access a high resolution view. This restricts the need to serve high resolution images to only the people who really do care about it.
- seemslegit 7y agoIt's not just bandwidth, it's also storage at instagram scale, but mostly because neither instagram nor the vast majority of their users find much utility in high resolution.