Kickstarter image compression bug

We found that kickstarter story page editor has a bug with pictures compression algorithm.

Bug 1 — File size increase while lowering the quality

Steps to reproduce:

Get this file https://cdn.flipper.net/437_KB_test_file.png
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Result: file size increased with lowering quality

Video demo

Screencast demo — file size increases while lowering the quality

Bug 2 — Ultimate image quality drop

Image compression is too strong with a very little file size change. In this demo 700kb file becomes 400kb with ultimate quality drop.

Steps to reproduce:

Get this file https://cdn.flipper.net/flipper_os_kickstarter_demo_file.png
Upload to campaign story page
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Result: blurry low resolution image without significant file size changes

Video demo

Suggestion 3 — replace GIF with MP4

Currently everyone is using animated GIF's in their Kickstarter pages. The GIF format is legacy inefficient format. Each animated GIF file is aproximately >10MB while still very low quality.

You can let people use MP4 (h264) video files that will autoplay muted. It will save file size up to 10x and increase quality dramatically!

MP4 autoplay muted video (file size 380KB!!!)

File size 10 times less than GIF (380Kb)

GIF (file size 4MB)

Old inefficient format GIF. File size is 4MB