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I always zoom in on pictures on the web to see if the compression is good or if there are artifacts.

• arp242 3y ago
  I agree, it's not a good example to lead with. That said, in the context of showing off your photography I can understand considering these kind of artifacts undesirable, even though they're perfectly fine for a lot of other uses. On my own website I spent quite some time downgrading my mugshot to be as small as possible without too many artifacts – it's now 4.9K in WebP, vs. 9.2K in JPEG before. Maybe that was a tad obsessive though... I do think the author doesn't quite appreciate that most people are not photographers, and that for most images quality doesn't actually matter all that much.