#MASTODON #IDEAS / #SUGGESTIONS... [IMAGE BLOAT]
Massive space take up by PNG images... [unintended]
Have you noticed the PNG image files on Mastodon when you go to save an image? (images are not JPG)
[Assumption #1]: The image is converted to PNG sometimes to strip EXIF...
Example post link: https://retrochat.online/@jimblimey/111747885508547123
PNG = 1,1mb +/-
JPG = 150Kb +/-
If I'm right then it's good to strip EXIF but regularly 1MB PNG files are created for originally ~50-100Kb JPG upload!
Overall it is killing space massively also.
█ A SOLUTION:
Convert the PNG back to JPG (done server side) to get about 1mb space back per image!
Example post link: https://retrochat.online/@jimblimey/111747885508547123
PNG = 1,1mb +/-
JPG = 150Kb +/-
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P.S Disclaimer for suggestion...
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█This suggestion you're free to take for yourself / share with the makers of Mastodon as I don't use external sites to do feature requests or feedback (I mostly use Mastodon only but if you use other things you can take this there)
█ If you want a list of all my suggestions, I'll search my side and give you all of them...
