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Why 50KB Photo Uploads Break Government Portals
Government forms often reject photos over 50KB due to server load constraints, but file size is unpredictable. PNGs are lossless and can't hit small targets; JPEG's lossy compression is required. Developers can solve this by iterating compression quality to hit exact byte targets.
Meridian48 take
The article correctly identifies a real UX pain point, but the solution is well-known in image processing; the real story is why legacy systems still enforce such tight limits.
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