Since I’m not uploading to my instance but hosting using catbox, I could upload the full image as the main image every time. (Instance limit is 1mb, and it also further compresses all images into webp files)
But for some users on mobile apps in places with crap internet, larger files mean they have to wait for the post to load for potentially tens of seconds. That’s really annoying, just to see what someone posted.
In order for my posts to load relatively instantly no matter the conditions in which a user is browsing lemmy, I thumbnail any image larger than a megabyte into something smaller. For any images like this I then link the original file, should someone like to see the piece in full quality.
For speed.
Since I’m not uploading to my instance but hosting using catbox, I could upload the full image as the main image every time. (Instance limit is 1mb, and it also further compresses all images into webp files)
But for some users on mobile apps in places with crap internet, larger files mean they have to wait for the post to load for potentially tens of seconds. That’s really annoying, just to see what someone posted.
In order for my posts to load relatively instantly no matter the conditions in which a user is browsing lemmy, I thumbnail any image larger than a megabyte into something smaller. For any images like this I then link the original file, should someone like to see the piece in full quality.
That makes sense, thanks for the explanation!