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I know meta (ha) discussions are frowned upon on HN, but I never really understood why, so here it goes: This link weights in 115MB. It loads a 30MB GIF for it
by tambourine_man 2y ago
I know meta (ha) discussions are frowned upon on HN, but I never really understood why, so here it goes:
This link weights in 115MB. It loads a 30MB GIF for its hero image.
That's from a company that was born on and from the Web.
The people that brought you React.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoThey brought you React so that there'd be plenty of bloat at runtime for their trackers to hide in. Seems consistent to me.
- paxys 2y agoThe "GIF" is a video. You are watching a bunch of advertising videos. 115 MB isn't really very much in that regard.
- tambourine_man 2y agoNo, it's a GIF, in the file format sense. Se for yourself: https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/01_Why-AR-Glasses_Carousel-01.gif https://about.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/01_Why-AR-Gl... They have since optimized it and it now weights 23.5MB. Yey. I just converted it to MP4 and it's 1.7MB. Hire me Meta, I can make your videos load 10X faster with a single ffmpeg command.
- thehappypm 2y agoIs mp4 a drop-in replacement in practice for gif?
- tambourine_man 2y agoIn most cases, yes. But even when it's not, I'd be hard pressed to justify 10X the size while having worse fps, colors, battery life, etc.
- dtdynasty 2y agoThe person who made this post is likely not an engineer and is more focused on content and public perception than load times.
- tambourine_man 2y agoOf course, but who authorizes the launch page of a major new product to be published with no technical review? Or even, any review at all? Does it feel right when you’re selling a device for visual consumption and the main animation takes forever to load, plays at 12fps while spiking up your CPU?