Not sure if this is the best place to post this. But it looks like Beehaw isn’t resizing user avatars.

I don’t want to point out specific examples, because i’m not trying to call out any individual user here, but the home page currently has multiple cases of user avatars that are multiple megabytes in size.

As far as i can tell, they should be atomatically resized to 96x96 pixels, and on other lemmy instances they are, but here they are being served full size, that includes posts and comments by beehaw users to other instances.

Figured I should say something since I noticed it, bandwidth isn’t free, and 10s of MBs just for user avatars is a lot for someone on a slow connection.

  • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgMEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Resolved. It was a Beehaw caching issue and not a Lemmy/PictRS issue.

    Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

  • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgMEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Can you DM me a few of the specific examples please?

    Might be related to the caching were trying to do which is supposed to be reducing the bandwidth bot increasing it.

    • WellThisIsNew@fjdk.ukOPEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I’ve sent you one of the worst instances (~10mb avatar), however i’m guessing you’ve resolved this since i’m no longer seeing the issue.

    • WellThisIsNew@fjdk.ukOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I don’t see an avatar for your user?

      Regardless, I think it’s a server problem, not a people choosing large avatars problem, I think they should be resized automatically.

  • a_jackal@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ve noticed that as well when browsing on my phone, I zoomed in onto a comment and noticed the avatar wasn’t blurry. I could zoom onto it more and more until it filled my screen and it still looked fine. Not great for user bandwidth as you say, and for the site servers either.