Nostr Web Client

Starting to realize how many people have >25MB profile pictures in Nostr. No wonder why things have been crashing...

Gotta find an image proxy and scale them down to under 500kb to make things better.

#[2] reported that many users have profile pics larger than 25MB. If clients pull those images then that would add up quick. See note #[3]

Maybe that’s not it, but most likely contributes if profile pics aren’t cached. Or is it simply lots of relay traffic between client and the relays. #[4] #[5] curious to know your thoughts.

Fun things to work out as this amazing system gets built!

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jb55 2y ago

Damus downsamples large images and caches those.

Nostrilandia 2y ago

Cool. So what causes so much data usage? Is it just lots of use or is it unique to how the protocol works?

I just checked my data usage for the blue bird app for the last 30 days, and it was almost zero.

Oh wait. That makes sense.