As of a few weeks ago, image uploads in Discourse are faster AND smaller thanks to a technique that compresses and optimizes the images clientside before they are uploaded. This blog post will describe how this feature works and how we implemented it in Discourse.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2021/07/faster-user-uploads-on-discourse-with-rust-webassembly-and-mozjpeg/