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[–] [S] -3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

The images get processed in your own browser. The only infrastructure I'm using is the bit of Javascript and HTML I am loading when accessing the site, the rest is handled by my own machine.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    The only infrastructure I’m using is the bit of Javascript and HTML

    If Photopea was so simple, you could just download the necessary parts and self-host.

    This won't work because there is actual server-side code running, meaning you're hogging someone else's resources to do your commercial-grade tasks.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    This won’t work because there is actual server-side code running

    That is not true! You can figure that out for yourself - open up the site, disconnect your internet and resize/crop some images. It will do it just fine, because all of that code runs in your own browser.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The image processing happens locally in the web browser.

    Not to imply that hosting the static assets to power that (JS and WebAssembly binaries) is free, but it's definitely much cheaper than the compute resources that would be required to do the heavy lifting server-side.

    (Still worth paying for or allowing ads though. Photopea clearly took a lot of work to build)

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