As usual this discussion is missing the real point, IMAO°

It's not if 80kb are enough, but if settings from the end 90s are sufficiently user friendly nowadays.

I'm not sure if it's even possible to set my smartphone to such "small" camera pics.

And a "new" website would do the downsizing on server side to avoid bothering the user.

Since changing the code here is too much of a hassle, we should consider providing a help text explaining how to easily down scale pics to 80kb.

Like a one liner for convert on Linux...

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) in my arrogant opinion...

update

In hindsight, rescaling could probably already be done on client side nowadays., with JavaScript.

A current Firefox so fat that I have trouble running it on an old netbook, so there must be some included lib for that. (Emacs as operating system jokes are for grandmas ;)

Quick search found https://imagekit.io/blog/how-to-resize-image-in-javascript/ (tldr)

In reply to Re^2: Larger profile pic than 80KB? (Updated) by LanX
in thread Larger profile pic than 80KB? by stevieb

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