@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com On GIF and potentially arbitrary media upload support… I agree we can do something about just accepting and uploading original quality media, which in itself would just magically™ fix/support GIFs too. 👌
I do not think it’s “fitting” per se to just support any arbitrary crap myself personally, I mean this is what I built fbox for 😅
Now on to my concerns…
Concerns:
- Supporting folks with poor bandwidth or limited traffic plans. Yes! This is still a thing.
- Performance is still a consideration. Larger media will incur additional latency, cost, bandwidth, etc.
- Not everyone would really want this per se, see above point.
I kind of like the approach @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org and @movq@www.uninformativ.de already take, which I’m sure they’ve developed their own “processes” for this. Perhaps we can do something similar, accept the original, still do some processing, show the smaller versions by default and let users decide to see the original?
@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com I just think we have to be mindful of how we approach this. There is nothing worse than a poor user experience with a “spinning wheel” loading up multi-Megabyte images on a poor Internet connection. Maybe it’s better in the US, but even here in Australia, our so-called 4G/LTE/5G is utter rubbish….
There is also a real cost to allowing arbitrary media in original quality (up to the -U/--max-upload-size) and that cost comes to the end-user / viewer who may actually be paying for “Traffic” – I kid you not, we do this in Australia still today in #2021 – I wish I was making this up 🤦♂️
So… I think we can do this; it just comes down to providing choices to end-users, making the default “sane” for everyone or well-balanced and providing Pod Owners like you the freedom/flexibility to change these options and also as an end-users.
So… Let’s do this… Let’s write this up as an EPIC on the Issue Tracker and we’ll get this done. We will ensure we tick all the checkboxes ✅