Comment on Show HN: PantasticparentComments−ErikRogneby13yI will second that. when the drop shadow font loaded on top of white I thought to myself, "the HN design geeks are going to slay this."I am sure it didn't help that we were all hammering the site.−michaelmior13yVery true. It's not really a fair time to judge performance. It would probably be a good idea to set a dark background colour in that area while the image is loading.−nwienert13yGranted it's a massive png, should be a jpg with 50-80% quality, especially given it's already blurred.
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I will second that. when the drop shadow font loaded on top of white I thought to myself, "the HN design geeks are going to slay this."
I am sure it didn't help that we were all hammering the site.
Very true. It's not really a fair time to judge performance. It would probably be a good idea to set a dark background colour in that area while the image is loading.
Granted it's a massive png, should be a jpg with 50-80% quality, especially given it's already blurred.