With #Mastodon, what type of compression is being done to speed load times and reduce the environmental footprint? Conversion to modern #WebP or #AVIF formats?
Steps to reproduce the problem Open any user profile like https://mastodon.online/@pkrugman while logged out ... Expected behaviour The page should finish loading within a reasonable time Actual be...
Only way I can think of is that the server compresses the file automatically. WebP for example, is not a very resource intensive encoding format. So server load shouldn't be that bad.
Alternatively that there is an optional checkbox for "compress" when uploading recognised media. And a warning about "this file is above reccommended filesize". Reccommended file-size being maybe 350 - 500 kb.
Nemo_bis 🌈
in reply to Mike Gifford, CPWA • • •github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Mastodon v4.0.0 web UI loads several MB in resources · Issue #20336 · mastodon/mastodon
GitHubSaphkey 🕊️
in reply to Mike Gifford, CPWA • • •I manually convert and compress my images to WebP and compress my videos before uploading on Mastodon.
Mike Gifford, CPWA
in reply to Saphkey 🕊️ • • •Saphkey 🕊️
in reply to Mike Gifford, CPWA • • •Only way I can think of is that the server compresses the file automatically.
WebP for example, is not a very resource intensive encoding format.
So server load shouldn't be that bad.
Alternatively that there is an optional checkbox for "compress" when uploading recognised media. And a warning about "this file is above reccommended filesize". Reccommended file-size being maybe 350 - 500 kb.
Mike Gifford, CPWA
in reply to Saphkey 🕊️ • • •