[Also, I don't like the quality of the images. How can I take their advice seriously if the images are barely viewable. It looks like someone actually made an effort to reduce the quality of the images. For artistic effect, probably. Don't do that.]
> By dithering, we can make images ten times less resource-intensive, even though they are displayed much larger than on the old website.
This is needed because the website is solar-powered and self-hosted on low-tech hardware, read more here:
> We further apply default typefaces, dithered images, off-line reading options, and other tricks to lower energy use far below that of the average website.
They did, and it’s part of the footprint-reduction techniques used to host the site off solar full-time. https://github.com/lowtechmag/solar/wiki/Solar-Web-Design#im...
Might as well use your server to generate some of that heat ...
I think it's acceptable for the drawings to be compressed this way but the photographs are very unclear.
cenamus•2h ago
But I guess that would go against the "low tech" spirit. And if panels aren't the limiting factor why not