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by thasian 2162 days ago
I've replaced most of the gifs with embedded videos. Page loading size is around ~100 mb now
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That’s still very unreasonably large and is going to cause real problems for some users, though not as many (and is still going to be uselessly slow to load for many—much of the world, including where large numbers of developers, even SwiftUI developers, are, doesn’t have multi-megabit-per-second speeds). Look, even 20MB is too large. Please, I beg you, just don’t put any GIFs on that page: just make it clear that it’s a video, e.g. by overlaying a circled play icon on the image and making it a link to the relevant video on YouTube.
Ok holy shit. Mp4 compression then converting to gif is the holy grail. 1/3 the original size wtf.