BellCube

After some recent discussion in the Mod Authors server, I had an idea. Perhaps mod authors could be presented with two options: Lossy-compressed Images, which load with the page Losslessly-compressed images, which load in the background after the page is loaded Introducing author control would allow a mod author to individually control the user experience of their mod page, just as their own mods. But, how exactly would these two options work from a technical perspective? There's a lot of talk about how to do lazy-loading for images. My suggestion for Nexus would be to serve small thumbnails for the image carousels (as you already do!) and, for the lossless images, defer loading them until a few seconds after the main JS executes. I would suggest using <link rel="preload" href="..." /> to perhaps load the lossless images early, but this might adversely affect users' internet data limits. Maybe you could defer loading lossless images until after the user opens the image browser—loading as many lossless images as possible once they open it. However this is implemented, though, I would love to see this tradeoff given to authors. For things like texture overhauls, the compression artifacts in an image can make or break the selling point of the mod.

@JimboUK To be fair, I've never seen a compression algorithm that handled dark stuff well At least in my opinion (someone who does filmmaking stuff IRL from time to time and can spot when a room is slightly pink or green passively), I think the quality jump is noticeable—even in full-size comparisons displayed in the forum posts (smaller than they would be on the site itself). Blurry background vs non-blurry background makes an unexpectedly-large difference in the "feel" of an image.

The high site load has revealed to me that there's nothing indicating that a new tab is loading. This is especially noticeable when loading the Mods tab of an author. It appears as though the button simply didn't work.

I would love to see an eventual "compact mode" for people who like to take in a lot of information at once. A lot of the info on the current page feels... big. It takes up a lot of space.

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