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by gib444 70 days ago
The 3.57MB background PNG is hilarious [0]

[0] https://railway.com/dots-oxipng.png

3 comments

Ha! I normally wouldn’t find it quite so hilarious, but it’s a stylistically pixelated image. There’s just too much irony packed in there to not chuckle.
It's more halftone (might not be the correct term), not pixelated

There might be more irony in saying it's stylized pixels without realizing that the style of the image can't be replicated with blocks of the same size but I dunno, I'm not Alanis Morissette

I got it down to 1.03MB by just switching the png to palette encoding mode.
Got the same running through tinypng.
Perhaps if those geniuses at Railway were slightly more competent they wouldn't have created a 10-minute-to-build frontend app, disregarding the choice of underlying framework.
They could have saved themselves 3MB by converting it to AVIF.