Nostr Web Client

Folks, check the size of your profile image. Many folks are using massive 10MB gifs, some 50MB gifs.

This takes seconds to load on mobile if it loads at all.

Your readers are wasting a lot of data simply trying to download your profile picture before reading your post.

Just as a reference, my profile pic is 800x800 pixels (which is super high resolution) and only consumes 57kb.

$ curl -I

...

content-length: 29297

ignore images that are too large based on http headers content-length

ignore gifs because gif is stale file format

when adding profile pic, make client side compression to eg 500x500 webp

further optimization:

there could be two profile pic files. one small, and one larger when you open profile or click to view full size image

you cannot expect any specific behaviour from users. anyone can set any size of profile pic. you can however make clients not to download those.

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