So... Ello without color? :D Is this...

🦿 Lucian Marin How does a social network for black and white photography sound? Will you use it? Will you pay for it?

Mark Dain So... Ello without color? :D Is this something you're building? If so I have complete faith it'll be a pleasure to use, but it might not get enough users to be worth it

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🦿 Lucian Marin JPEG files saved in grayscale mode (yes, JPEG has a luminance mode that is different from RGB mode) are 1.5 times smaller than in full color. This allows to provide higher resolution images in the same bandwidth. The economics are the problem. You can't store unlimited images for free. Big corporations have their own data centers, so they can afford it. I really think people will use it if it's absolutely free. But once you ask people to pay for storing their pictures things change.

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Mark Dain You could use tools like jpegoptim to squeeze more images on disk, although it's tricky. It's always going to be expensive to save data. S3's prices aren't terrible: aws.amazon.com/s3/... depends how much you're willing to pay to run the service. I imagine Sublevel isn't free to run, but comparatively quite cheap (it's 'just text', right?)

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Eric I was thinking just use dumb CSS3 filters but your idea is far superior, +1!

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