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The hero image on the linked page, which consists of a muted teal background with the words "Introducing Muse Spark", weighs in at 3,5MB. I don't even...
by hackrmn 6mo ago
The hero image on the linked page, which consists of a muted teal background with the words "Introducing Muse Spark", weighs in at 3,5MB. I don't even...
- Invictus0 6mo agocomplaining about sand on the beach
- hungryhobbit 6mo agoSomeday our robot overlords will be intelligent enough to ... optimize images! (But today is not that day.)
- ruszki 6mo agoThe proper optimization in this case is to not use images at all.
- zfol_510 6mo agoAnd it doesn't even look high-res.
- Overpower0416 6mo agolol it literally took me 2s to google search "optimize image for website" and 10s to upload and get a smaller sized image. The result for that specific image is: 500kb. 85% decrease in size
- sofixa 6mo agoYou can even automatically do that on your CDN/delivery/web server layer. Or as part of your web deployment pipeline.
- Overpower0416 6mo agoYes, but it might be a little too advance for Meta ;)
- re-thc 6mo agoBut they have personal superintelligence?
- BugsJustFindMe 6mo agoAn indistinguishable JPG is 170KB. An SVG would be 20KB.
- levocardia 6mo agoCSS with a linear gradient background would be even smaller :)
- KerrickStaley 6mo ago"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." - Hacker News Guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yawnxyz 6mo agoI think this speaks to the product release iself
- gobdovan 6mo agoIt's at least Meta-relevant. Compression Represents Intelligence Linearly (Y Huang, 2024)
- sumedh 6mo agoSuch complaints are valid for AI model releases, that tells us that they are not using their own models to test their own release pages.
- ValentineC 6mo agoMaybe they did get their models to test their pages, but they didn't tell their models to pretend that they're browsing on mobile using a 3G connection.
- fleabitdev 6mo agoGood catch - looks like it's a PNG image, with an alpha channel for the rounded corners, and a subtle gradient in the background. The gradient is rendered with dithering, to prevent colour banding. The dither pattern is random, which introduces lots of noise. Since noise can't be losslessly compressed, the PNG is an enormous 6.2 bits per pixel. While working on a web-based graphics editor, I've noticed that users upload a lot of PNG assets with this problem. I've never tracked down the cause... is there a popular raster image editor which recently switched to dithered rendering of gradients?
- girvo 6mo agoMy reasoning is because once upon a time, I was using Macromedia Fireworks, and PNGs gave far far better results than JPGs did at the time, at least in terms of output quality. Nearly certainly because I didn't understand JPG compression, but for web work in the mid 2000s PNGs became my favourite. Not to mention proper alpha channels! ...and so it's stuck, two decades on haha
- kzrdude 6mo agoFor me it's 213 kB. Did they replace it?
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