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1178 sats \ 14 comments \ @Zepasta 1 Oct 2023 bitcoin

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21 sats \ 6 replies \ @Zepasta OP 1 Oct 2023

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6 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 1 Oct 2023

Is it just me or the uploaded image got compressed like hell? Very blurred and pixelated ...

Yes, they do. Our initial configuration of our image proxy was bad.

We use a image proxy to not leak IP addresses and to process images for better performance so you don't have to download 5MB+ images just to view them in a small box.

I don't think this extreme quality drop is worth the 50% reduction in size, specially with such small kb images.

You're totally right! That and more will be fixed when the changes in this PR are deployed which should happen soon. For example, we will also provide the link to the original image.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta OP 1 Oct 2023

Nice!

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SpaceHodler 1 Oct 2023

They do get compressed. I'm not sure why they have to, the original URL has full resolution. Maybe it's for caching purposes. When I open the image in a new tab, it takes me to a cached version (imgprxy.stacker.news). I'd prefer to be able to view the original image.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 1 Oct 2023

They do get compressed. I'm not sure why they have to, the original URL has full resolution.

We process images for performance/bandwidth reasons. We wanted to have an upper limit on image size but we are compressing them too much at the moment. For example, you shouldn't need to download multiple 5MB+ images in a comment thread with a lot of details just for the browser to downscale them since they will be shown in a small box so you won't be able to see the details anyway.

I'd prefer to be able to view the original image.

Yep, I can totally understand and you will be able to soon :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SpaceHodler 1 Oct 2023

Cool. Perhaps you can make it show the downsized image on the page, but link to the original URL that was posted in the post's / comment's body. Like a clickable thumbnail.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @badabing 1 Oct 2023

Looks good to me. Mempool will clear in next 24 hours.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 1 Oct 2023

Mempools will clear. Its what they do. Always and eventually.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @newnym 1 Oct 2023

I've been eyeing the mempool for some time as I've got some UXTO management to do. I'm feeling frisky, might even try some coin mixing :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 1 Oct 2023

might even try some coin mixing :)

I started mixing with Whirlpool on Sparrow a few days ago

Takes some time to get enough mixes in (3+), so better to start early imo :)

And I like the single fee at the beginning (flat fee + mining fees). After that, new UTXOs entering the pool pay for every mix of your UTXOs.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @CoSatoshi 3 Oct 2023

At the time of this writing, it is now just under 30k unconfirmed transactions. Did something fundamentally change to the mempool to cause this drastic reduction? I've never seen sats/vB this low since I got into Bitcoin but a couple years ago.