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by Can_Not 3728 days ago
Labeling everything in their gzip size (without the real size) is a bad new trend in my opinion. It feels like an unfair marketing practice since older projects won't mention gzip at all. I use gzip, but I don't think of my project in gzip numbers. The biggest issue I have with it is that now if somebody explicitly does not state whether or not they are talking about real size or gzip size, is likely that both of us don't know which size is being talked about. It feels like Fahrenheit and Celsius both being used unlabeled. I still think in real size, so it's an extra conversion for me when people use gzip only.
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On the project website it's specified tho :-)
Talking about a trend, not a specific project website tho :-)