Faster static images

[David-Ro]

We know the photos (as currently configured) slow down the site, so bandwidth and management of photos has to change first, before adding 10's or 100's of events.
E.g. send photos to a service that makes a grainy lightweight copy, and then store that version locally, cached.

[pcuci]

Can use https://api.imgur.com/models/image thumbnails (the medium thumbnail API doesn't seem to work)

[robertpragai]

Would a service like this work: https://tinypng.com/

[pcuci]

@robertpragai that's a good service, I started using it in conjunction with imgur.

Here's my work-flow to lower image sizes by 50%-75%:

1. Find a cool picture on the web
2. Open up my browser window and screenshot area of picture (a preliminary crop), about 80% of my large screen width
3. Upload to imgur.com Ctrl+V (pasting the screenshot)
4. Drag the imgur pic to tinypng.com, hover over the "download" link and Right-click and Copy link address
5. Upload compressed image to imgur, by URL
6. Optionally delete the older larger imgur original
7. Link from cover: and photo: front-matter configs to compressed imgur image

Horrible workflow, but it does saves load times!

Also, you can fake-throttle your browser to test how fast images would load on mobiles: