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> the imgurl community is always asking for more servers and bandwidth They serve 2 billion images per day, and they never delete pictures that are still activ
by Scuds 12y ago
> the imgurl community is always asking for more servers and bandwidth
They serve 2 billion images per day, and they never delete pictures that are still actively accessible from the internet.
At no cost to the user.
In any case, cache is golden, and a 5 MB gifs off of their front page could be a 500kb MP4. That difference adds up superfast it's off of their front page and has 30M views.
- gcb0 12y agoyou are replying to my comment out of context. the post i just answered to asked what is so special about gifv if all they are doing is a video tag. also, similar arguments where done when adding lazy loading etc... with the idea that "loading images progressively is better" etc... it all backfires in the end when done by those guys. now the user actually PERCEIVES the slow loading. before, images would take a long time, but if you waited you could see the whole album. now, thanks to lazy loading done bad, they will load AS YOU SCROLL... you get to witness all the wait! it is hell.