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It costs more bandwidth to send ansi than it does PNG by far.
I’m about 80% done. Just finishing some last db work and making sure inputs are sanitized and cleaned up and any warnings are properly handled.
Should be up this week.
Sep 08 · 3 months ago
🦁 Houjimmy [OP] · Sep 08 at 18:59:
So... I think there is really no need to ANSI, at least in my point of view. Or to give people the chance to choose normal image or ANSI.
The idea was more to "develop" a bit of the graphic side in gemini, give it more color etc, without compromising to much bandwith and space. But if it is the same I don't think there is a need to all the effort put in converting, I dunno.
🦁 Houjimmy [OP] · Sep 08 at 19:00:
If you do, please create a github to the project. I am not very versed in coding, but I can at least try to help a bit.
It depends on the size of the image. A 400KB-4MB JPEG might go down to 50KB of ANSI. Smaller images might end up bigger.
I don't have it working yet, but the plan is to use subdomain filtering to decide what to deliver. The default is ANSI, but acessing from the ascii.* subdomain would deliver ASCII art instead, which is much smaller.
Both can participate in the same board. It's just a question of which payload people want.
I suppose I could also add a null.* subdomain that removes all image display and only shows links.
It's all working off the same board and same database, it's just the user choosing what to see and me choosing the default.
🦁 Houjimmy [OP] · Sep 09 at 05:04:
I think that a image size should not be beyound 100 or 200k jpeg. I usually compress quality and achieve for most images less than that. And it someone would want to use it in a 2.5G grps connection or an older computer, I think it would help to generate the page faster depending the quantity of nested replies in the same page.
I don’t think it’s appropriate to degrade the original files to that degree. There could be people wanting to share their photography or 4K wallpapers.
I think an <40K ansi preview or <6K ascii preview followed by a link to open the original image is the way to go.
I will add a file size indicator to the image link so people can decide whether they want to commit to the data download based on the preview and post text.
Was this ever finished? I don't see any comments since September...
🦁 Houjimmy [OP] · Dec 14 at 10:49:
Unfortunally, I don't know.
☯️ dragfyre · Dec 14 at 12:05:
@istvan was around recently iirc.
also, i must have missed this thread. an imageboard that previews images in ascii/ansi art? that is *amazing*.
Imageboard — I have a fool question for those that understand the protocol better: Would be possible to implement an Imageboard over Gemini, like 4chan?