[ambicapter]

I was under the impression that base64 encoding doesn't reduce file size of an image at all, rather it sometimes increases it. That wasn't the point of using base64 string, right?

[bdhcuidbebe]

> a base64 string representing a compressed image

Parent explained that the base64 encoding held compressed data.

[TylerE]

But why base64 and not just… send the bytes? 6 bits per character vs 8