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Launched V1 of soundportals!

Today I finished version 1 (redesigned and feature-rich V) of https://soundportals.live

Soundportals.live empowers creatives to share their (soundscape/ambiance) art, while simultaneously creating a community and platform to help you work or relax!

Tell me what you think. Let me know if you have any problems or ideas for how I could improve it!

https://soundportals.live

, Founder of Icon for Soundportals.live
Soundportals.live
on February 19, 2020
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    The original images need resizing. For example if I open the first image in my browser I get the original file which is 2704x1512 pixels and 6.3MB. It loads very slowly over my crappy internet.

    https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/soundscapeportals.appspot.com/o/7lCYhBskNNaZ8lJWYu4cs0ABhUB2%2Fposts%2F1581550468353Screen Shot 2020-02-12 at 6.33.32 PM.png?alt=media&token=0415748a-0caf-4771-8764-2f1b01dd52d5

    You need to resize these down to the actual size you use (432x242) for efficiency. This will increase performance and reduce your bandwidth costs.

    I don't know for certain but I think Firebase can do this for you: https://firebase.google.com/products/extensions/storage-resize-images

    Maybe someone else more familiar with Firebase can help here!

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    It's a very pretty site - well done - but you need to rescale the image files as they are huge.

    60MB to load your page. Hope you're not paying for bandwidth(!!)

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      Thanks paul, any advice on how to/ho much to resize the images by?