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The PNG is an art piece hand-drawn by a friend, and I wanted to preserve its quality. What is a suitable size range I should try to downscale the image to?

Just scale it down to 1080px height and save it as a jpeg with 75% quality. Nobody will ever see the difference. Most browser windows will never display that picture bigger anyways (that means you can use computationally more expensive downscaling offline vs realtime downscaling by the browser).

I wouldn't vectorize it, that would have you lose the hand-drawn feel of it.

Okay, I've scaled it down to 1080 pixels in height as you suggested which brings it down to 1.5MB. I had to preserve the PNG format in order to maintain transparency.

Given its graphic nature I would vectorize it. You can compress it more if you clean it up in PS first.

https://vectorizer.ai/images/1695712791489-52152002c3989318-...

I have no opinion on the project itself

That's the purpose of Show HN, though.

but a 5.7MB PNG file displayed in the README

Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

While I agree in principle, this is a "Show HN" and pointing out the annoyances with a thing is kinda the point of the whole gig, don't you think?

After all, the reason people post their projects on here is that they expect people to give them feedback on how it is perceived.

No, pointing out annoyances is not the point of the whole gig. It's constructive feedback and critique. There's definitely room for feedback on presentation, verbiage, etc. But grousing about a minor annoyance is pretty shallow even as nitpickery goes and has the tendency to eat up threads. You can see the Show HN-specific guidelines here https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

And they couldn't even bother to add a screenshot.

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