🐛 [Bug] Cropped images, at the moment, are much larger

Created by: Tirokk

Authored by mattwr18 Oct 16, 2019 Closed Oct 21, 2019

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🐛 Bugreport

this can cause several issues

1. we run out of persistent storage space and must pay for more, or not be able to store uploads
2. as @alina-beck points out on discord "not everyone is on a superfast (or cheap) internet connection "

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. go to /post/create
2. upload an image, crop it, and save the post
3. check the size of the image in backend/public/uploads
4. ...
5. Profit

Expected behavior

Possible solutions as reported on discord @alina-beck points out a good solution: image compression "that's why I suggested to do the compression on our side – no frustration for the post authors who can't upload their big images and no frustration for users who want to view the posts and need to download the images" @vardyb gives some good short term solutions, while agreeing with @alina-beck: "I think with cropper.js you can set a max width, which may also help with file sizes, in addition to using the jpeg format. we could also play around with the compression values for jpeg."