This is the link to the image. It has 3.8mb. In my opinion that is way too much.

    • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      That’s a question for a web developer, which I am not. I would expect it to be the max common resolution width. A quick Google shows that modern ultrawides are 5120x1440. So that’s probably why.

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        1 year ago

        I’m a web developer.

        Lemmy does not use the entire screen width. The way it has been embedded in the page means that image takes up only 850 pixels of horizontal space so it could be 5x smaller and no one would be able to see the difference.

        Lemmy really should be automatically resizing the images (on the server) when they are uploaded, not every single time the community is viewed (in the browser).