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1. chrism+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-12-04 06:21:02
> their fiscal sponsorship program is enormous: https://hackclub.com/fiscal-sponsorship/directory/

Ouch, that is enormous. They forgot to handle images properly, so they’re serving ginormous images in inefficient formats instead of scaled thumbnails in efficient formats—just the first page transfers more than 40MB, and the second page is just as bad, and the third significantly worse. You get things like 11827×13107 “17230 Aluminium Falcons” logo being rendered at 64px high. (I’m surprised that one’s under 9MB.) Across pages 1–3, it’s averaging 1MB per item, which if it continues all the way to page 53 would exceed 2.5GB. Done properly, I’d expect most to be under 10KB, with a few up as high as 50KB, staying well under 1MB per page, and comfortably under 50MB for all 53 pages. It’d load faster and be cheaper to serve too.

(I know this isn’t what you meant, but it loaded so slowly that I looked, and that’s easily big enough to cause problems for some users.)

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2. Barbin+y1[view] [source] 2025-12-04 06:37:14
>>chrism+(OP)
Just let them know (admittedly not through a previously known reliable channel FYI, I’m a stranger)
3. conrad+X5[view] [source] 2025-12-04 07:24:37
>>chrism+(OP)
and as with most things in Hack Club... it's open source :)

https://github.com/hackclub/hcb/issues/12314

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