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Doxin on March 23, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: ThumbHash: A better compact image placeholder hash

As far as I know just about any file format other than JPEG is better at this. If I recall correctly you basically want to go with GIF if your thumbnail has less than 255 pixels total.

emptysea on March 23, 2023 [–]

just tested this and the jpeg ends up being 690 Bytes while the gif ends up being 2 KB

Doxin on March 28, 2023 | [–]

That can't possibly be right. What size image are you using here?

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