alt Hacker NewsThey were browsing the point shop. On Desktop (FF ctrlF5) this page loads 20-30MB of data. A mix of gif webm and animated pngs
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stefan_ • yesterday at 9:38 PM
Just scrolling up and down on this loads another 30MiB every cycle. No visible change.
This is one thing that Telegram did right with their .tgs animated sticker format (based on Lottie) and that somehow no one else in the message space seems to want to take the effort to replicate.
JSON and vector-based, heavily optimized for filesize and battery use.