Voted yes. BUT, Consider for a moment the bandwidth cost of the higher resolution. So theoretically if the current disk size of a star is on average say 500 bytes, and say each image appears on average 10 times per page, per 50k page loads per day.
5 Kb x 50,000 = 250 Mb per day
If this were increased to say 5 kb per star, let's run the math...
50 Kb x 50,000 = 2.5 Gb per day
This is only considering the bandwidth necessary for the stars. Now I don't want to speak for him but it seems unlikely that
can justify the increase in bandwidth cost just so our donor stars look prettier. There may be a solution though, if the stars were re-rendered as svg or png pixel images twice their current size with no opacity raster (pixels that 'fade' the edges) and use the css transform function to shrink them to their current size it may look clean enough to be an 'upgrade' while maintaining a similar bandwidth footprint. This is purely conjecture though as I am on mobile right now and have no idea of the exact sizes of anything, nor the actual average page loads daily of this site, nor a working model other than an idea based on previous work. Anyone else want to chime in?
This post was edited by swiftsword on Mar 4 2022 04:51pm
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