Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” - Dexerto
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Discord is lowering the upload limit for free users from 25MB to 10MB, citing operational and financial reasons.
  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    PNG started out as ZIP(BMP) and hasn’t gotten that much better. Use JPEG. The pixels you lose are not worth crying about

    • lemmyingly@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Or they could just compression for their PNGs. PNG is a lossless format so they’ll only lose a fraction of a second during creation.

    • B0rax@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      JPEG for graphics like screenshots is not very efficient. For stuff like that, png is simply superior. (But not with compression 0)

      PNG is not good for photos though.

      • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        why though? The graphics represented in the screen are already squashed and scaled, so you wouldn’t be preserving their quality in any case. If you’re worried about text, JPEG should still be able to handle it under high quality settings

        • B0rax@feddit.org
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          2 months ago

          We can ask the same the other way around: why do you want to use jpg if it results in a bigger size and worse quality than png?

          • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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            2 months ago

            But that’s patently untrue: take this 10 MB example TIFF file as an example.

            • PNG Compression, max compress (=quality 9):

              convert file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff -quality 9 test.png

            • JPG Encoding, 99% quality (=quality 99):

              convert file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff -quality 99 test.jpg

            Final file size comparison:

            9.7M Sep  5 13:21 file_example_TIFF_10MB.tiff
1.7M Sep  5 13:22 test.jpg
2.5M Sep  5 13:22 test.png

            PNG is significantly larger, and difference in quality between them is negligible

            • B0rax@feddit.org
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              2 months ago

              Dude. Did you even read what I wrote? PNG is bad for photos. Your example is a photo. Go ahead and try the same with a screenshot with text and menus showing.

            • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              png - jpg

              156K Sep  5 23:06 Screenshot_20240905_230459.jpg
137K Sep  5 23:05 Screenshot_20240905_230459.png

              jpg with 80% compression, via krita.

              As B0rax said, for screenshots, png is better - it can represent line graphics and text more efficiently.

    • Lucy :3@feddit.org
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      2 months ago

      I use 4k because I like seeing a lot of stuff at the same time in good quality.
      I make screenshots of my whole screen to share all the stuff in the highest detail.
      Using jpeg would result in literally unreadable pictures.