[NickBusey]

And this is why everything is slow and terrible. Because us developers use fast machines on fast connections, and assume everyone else does.

Travel to some far flung parts of the world, and see if your hypothesis holds true.

[tshaddox]

I'm not really sure that sentiment applies here. People on slow or unreliable connections probably aren't going to rejoice that they get to see blobs of color for a while until the full images load, all for the cost of waiting longer for the full images and loading more total data at the end of the ordeal.

[nextaccountic]

> all for the cost of waiting longer for the full images and loading more total data at the end of the ordeal.

Thumbhash is tiny (like, 28 bytes base64) and can be embedded in the html itself

Replacing all your CSS class names by one or two letter names would save multiple times this amount even on tiny websites, but I'm not seeing nobody doing this

[tshaddox]

CSS class names probably don't benefit much unless you're on such low end hardware that you're worried about client gzip costs (and at some point we have to determine some reasonable floor to client capabilities). These embedded thumbnails would presumably be essentially incompressible.

[attah_]

Well, yes and no. There is lots of waste for sure, but this is really just not warranted. Honestly i'm not sure it ever was. Even 15-20 years ago actual pictures loaded just fine. And don't get me started on text placeholders..

[xwdv]

If I was in a far flung part of the world I wouldn’t be perusing content rich bandwidth intensive websites.

I’d be smoking a cig sitting on a worn mattress in the highest floor of an abandoned apartment building typing on a late 90s ThinkPad, negotiating prices on stolen credit card lists through encrypted IRC channels and moving illicit files on SSH servers based in foreign countries.

[beachy]

I'm in a far flung part of the world and a lot of my time is spent in very normal places like the AWS console, not doing any of those cool and dangerous sounding things.

[xwdv]

Maybe you haven’t been flung far enough.

[popcalc]

When you go full lain...