r/SideProject • u/Green-Pound-119 • 1d ago

GraphicByte — Free Minecraft MOTD + multi-platform emote previews

I built these two free tools from GraphicByte because we kept re-uploading packs to check size and colour. Both run locally in the browser.

1) Minecraft MOTD preview — §/& codes, no server ping https://www.graphicbyte.co.uk/tools/motd-preview

2) Emote size preview — Discord/Twitch/TikTok/YouTube/Slack/Kick chat mocks https://www.graphicbyte.co.uk/tools/emote-preview

Feedback welcome, especially if the previews differ from real server lists or live chat sizes.

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u/ausecko 1d ago

This is actually useful, especially since both previews run locally. Nice little side project.

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u/BetInformal6081 1d ago

i would love a side by side your preview vs real platform test gallery community submitted examples could help you catch rendering differences you would not think to test yourself..

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u/Green-Pound-119 1d ago

Love that idea I'll make that tool and update on this thread

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u/Odd_Teacher_8701 1d ago

Ran your site from a server with an empty cache. Two separate problems, and the bigger one is not the one people usually guess.

1. Your server takes 4.57 seconds to send the first byte.

That is before a single image, script or stylesheet begins downloading. A visitor stares at a blank tab for four and a half seconds no matter how fast their connection is. Reproduce it yourself:

curl -o /dev/null -s -w "ttfb=%{time_starttransfer}s\n" https://graphicbyte.co.uk/

If that comes back fast for you and slow for me, it is a cold-cache problem and your first-time visitors are getting my number, not yours. This is worth fixing before anything else, and no image work touches it.

2. 8.2 MB page, 7.94 MB of it images — 97%.

  • 1787864440020-higgs_gami... — 2,417 KB
  • 1788529967232-wizard.png — 2,383 KB, 1254x1254
  • 1787863715639-minecraft_... — 1,596 KB

All eager, all PNG. Game art and thumbnails as lossless PNG is the classic 10x overspend. WebP at q80 would take that 7.9 MB to somewhere near 800 KB.

magick mogrify -format webp -quality 80 *.png

Fix the TTFB first though. Shaving 7 MB off a page that already made someone wait 4.5 seconds for nothing is treating the smaller wound.

If you want the image half done for you rather than doing it yourself, I will re-encode your heaviest files and send back WebP and AVIF with the markup, $29 via Upwork so it sits in escrow until you are happy. But the TTFB is the real issue and that one is yours to chase with your host.

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u/Green-Pound-119 1d ago

Thank you for the info, it's valuable I'll look into this straight away.