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It does load fast, but I'm pretty sure the ditherpunk aesthetic is bogus. Byte for byte, JPEGs should beat dithered PNGs / GIFs, and they never proved that the
by ReactiveJelly 3y ago
It does load fast, but I'm pretty sure the ditherpunk aesthetic is bogus. Byte for byte, JPEGs should beat dithered PNGs / GIFs, and they never proved that the end-to-end costs of JPEG encoding and decoding are worse than dithering. It just looks distinct.
- BHSPitMonkey 3y agoI'm not sure how that makes it "bogus". The site also uses CSS styles that technically use more bandwidth than vanilla HTML. The point was never to find the most optimal solution.