I used all of my data in chrome browsing yoyo expert forums. 
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The good news is that Discourse is extremely bandwidth efficient:
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it’s a JavaScript app that runs in your browser so it only downloads the minimum necessary data to display in JSON format and renders that data entirely via already loaded JS code
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we only load images as they scroll into view, as of recently.*
You could have a hideously poor internet connection and still have a good experience on Discourse. One caveat: you do need to download the JS app bundle on first load, so that’s a bit of up front cost.
* prior to that all posts were loaded in chunks of 20 as you scroll up or down, so it was still good but not optimal like it is now.
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I thought something had changed with pics. They kind of blur into focus now.
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Yes the low res 10x10 placeholder is used which is pre-rendered into the replies. That way if the image completely fails you get a sense of what it might be, at least.
It is kinda funny to scale a 10x10 pixel array up to large size.
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Reddit, then YouTube, then Chrome. Reddit not so good for yoyos but great for other stuff.
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If you want to see an example, here’s a 10x10 image in HTML
<html>
<img src="data:image/png;base64,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" width=433 height=492 />
</html>
Raw image is here
↑ it’s teeny tiny
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Another example
Size cost:
| 5×5 | 234 bytes |
| 10×10 | 464 bytes |
| 20×20 | 1,291 bytes |
| 40×40 | 4,142 bytes |
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Oh so you use your phone as your WiFi source instead of a router? Cool.
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Watching yoyo tutorials and this forum.
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That… is a ton of data 
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And I only have 500 megabytes of data.
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Spotify by a long shot! Can’t go anywhere without my music 
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Me too
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instagram mostly.
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I do not have internet / wifi at home…just my iphone6 with no unlimited data…
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I’m using the WiFi at my house right now. I use my mobile data on the way back from school to browse yoyo expert forums.
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I automatically connect to wifi at work. I’m low on data now so that’s handy. Plus, Starbucks on my days off…
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I have WiFi basically everywhere on campus, so I very rarely use data. Without WiFi, I would probably use the most data on Spotify.
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