Any plans to offer up a dark mode for easier reading? Just curious, and if I've missed that feature or option somewhere, please accept my apologies in advance.
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Any plans to offer up a dark mode for easier reading? Just curious, and if I've missed that feature or option somewhere, please accept my apologies in advance.
Not yet, but definitely plan on doing it in the future. The problem with a dark mode, is that it potentially messes up a lot of things in articles. For example, in many of the articles we posted in the past, the image background is white, so the images blend perfectly, as they are supposed to. When you switch to a dark background, these images will show a white border around them, since they are saved as JPEGs. While you can switch to transparent PNG format, it complicates things quite a bit - images have to become much larger in size, as you can only make images look "clean" in 24-bit PNG. This increases both storage requirements and download speeds.
So I have to think about that one and explore other image formats, such as WebP that deal with transparency better. Not an impossible job, just something that I would have to really make sure to address before we roll it out.
I can't even imagine what the hosting bill for DPReview was. That's probably one of the reasons why Amazon decided to kill it off.
By the way, I am currently trying to download some of the content from DPReview for preservation purposes. I have not even gotten to RAW images yet, and I can already tell you it will be terabytes of data. I don't think anyone can afford paying for that much cloud storage...
Thanks for the update on that Nasim, I figured that question may come up about the site so I figured I'd start a thread to avoid repetition.
Amazon had a lot of cloud servers is my understanding, so I assume they leveraged that for DPR. Unless I'm missing your point.
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Thanks for the update on that Nasim, I figured that question may come up about the site so I figured I'd start a thread to avoid repetition.
Amazon had a lot of cloud servers is my understanding, so I assume they leveraged that for DPR. Unless I'm missing your point.
You are right, just a minor correction - Amazon doesn’t just have a lot of cloud servers, they literally own some of the biggest cloud infrastructure in the world known as “AWS”.
