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Comment by OzzyB | Hacker News Reader

Very nice!

I know you want to show off the buttery smoothness of your animations, but do you really need to dump >200MBs of gifs on that single page?

Holy laptop fan smoke!

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Do NOT open this page on mobile. It just consumed all my data plan

It consumed my cable internet plan.

It consumed me

thanks for the warning. reading comments first always helps.

LOL so sorry dudes. I use HN on web....

Interesting, via iOS safari the page was quick to load and scrolled smoothly, no noticeable performance issue (excepting the payload size is excessive).

Maybe safari is more optimized for gifs?

Yeah same this worked fine

Worked fine for me on AOSP8 with Iceweasel on Honor 9 too, albeit on ac wireless with 400Mbps connection (at least I didn't notice any slowdowns, and this is hardly top of the line hw or sw).

Thanks for warning, i need my data plan

Ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch. Flagged the submission for this reason, it’s going to cause severe problems for lots of people, and being GIFs and so enormous they don’t even load well (when I start loading even the first GIF by itself, it spends a lot of its time loading at below one frame per second). The GIFs should be removed urgently and replaced with static images and links to videos.

350 MB of GIFs by my count!

Yea prob more tbh

ok u know what. changing all the gifs to embedded videos. no one will complain about me discriminating towards mobile :^)

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