Re: Introduce contributor badges

Re: Dave Page
> > What max input size would we accept? 2000x2000 (4 megapixels) should
> > be pretty much enough for everyone?
>
> These are images for badges - why on earth do they have to be that big? You
> pad them and then display them at 150x150 from what I can see. All of that
> seems like work that needn't be done by our servers - I would have the user
> upload at <= 256x256 or something (and adjust max_length to something more
> reasonable), and then pad and resize them in CSS. Which looks like it might
> be broken anyway - .badges-grid uses minmax(150px, 1fr) with img { width:
> 100% }, so on wide layouts a 150px image likely gets stretched beyond its
> real size.

That would be the max acceptable input size before server-side
rescaling. I proposed something insanely large that shouldn't get in
the way of anyone uploading while still limiting server memory.
What you are saying is that we shouldn't do server-side rescaling but
just take the user image-as is. That works for me.

I'll work on a patch to make that switch.

(The question might come back if we want to build a sprite image.)

Christoph