Oppo poll: Which would be worse for you?

"If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent" (essextee) 12/10/2019 at 18:11 • Filed to: None

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1) Kinja stops hosting its own images OR

2) Kinja stops hosting full-size images and starts terribly compressing them a la Facebook

I apologize in advance if any Kinja devs see this post and get the idea to actually implement these changes.

Kinja User Improvement > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 12/10/2019 at 18:21

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We love your ideas and can’t wait to implement them. Thank you for your suggestions.

For Sweden > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 12/10/2019 at 18:24

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Only weeping and g nashing awaits now that we live without Ernie’s grace

facw > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 12/10/2019 at 18:27

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1. The fact Kinja (or their CDN) hosts images is one of the best things about the platform, and a feature shockingly missing from a ton of online commenting platforms.

Kinja already compresses images, and sometimes doesn’t provide a full-sized image when you click through, so 2 is sort of with us already. Even then modern compression is decent, and doesn’t need to destroy image quality. Indeed they probably should be re-compressing our images to webp to serve to anyone who isn’t using Safari (A pple is lagging) , which would get them decent bandwidth savings.

As far as images go, I’d like to be able to embed mp4/webm and such much like we can images now. If you upload a gif Kinja will recompress it to an mp4 (this is a big improvement, previously it recompressed them to gifs that were almost always significantly larger than the input gif), so it seems like a no-brainer to just let us upload in the modern format to start with.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 12/10/2019 at 18:29

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Yes.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 12/10/2019 at 18:32

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realistic case: kinja hosts its own images and crops them down to thumbnails

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > Kinja User Improvement 12/10/2019 at 18:35

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I’m guessing this is Nibby or Monkeypuzzle

ranwhenparked > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 12/10/2019 at 18:36

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Well, option 1,  obviously

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 12/10/2019 at 18:58

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Urambo Tauro > Kinja User Improvement 12/10/2019 at 21:04

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Oh NO

Future Heap Owner > facw 12/10/2019 at 22:06

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Agreed, I think the (high-quality!)  image hosting and decent in-browser cropping tool have a lot to do with how active Oppo is.

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Urambo Tauro 12/10/2019 at 22:56

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Herbs can't spell. That jokester is clearly can.

Stef Schrader > Kinja User Improvement 12/13/2019 at 09:14

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The compression is really bad, folks. I uploaded one GIF and it looks like complete butt.

Stef Schrader > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 12/13/2019 at 09:32

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I don’t apologize. I sent in a request asking them to fix this garbage ASAP and to make comments usable on Firefox. This is some 1997 GeoCities-era compression and completely unprofessional for a site in 2019.

I’ve been yelling into what feels like a void about Firefox comments for months, too. Half the time on Firefox, comments don’t even load (or they load properly) until I refresh the page. If I want to load more comments at all, I have to switch browsers entirely. If I want to format my comment, again, I have to open another browser. It’s infuriating, especially when one of Gizmodo’s own writers talked about dropping Chrome for Firefox. Your website should work on more than one browser!!! Doing otherwise vastly reduces your audience and drives users away to other sites. It’s a bad design practice, full stop. (Not that the herbs care about driving people away, but the Kinja devs probably do.)